This is an analysis of Seashore by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea
Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcdefggggbfffXd aXgafge XXhaffXXfh ihXghhg Xcjgbfija
- Stanza lengths: 17,7,10,7,9,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101111101 1111111101 0111110111 1111010001 1111011111 1101011100 1101010011 1101110111 0101010101 1111010101 1011111101 1101010001 1101110011 1011001101 1111011101 101111 0101 0101010011 1100100101 1101011001 1101010001 1001110001 0100110111 1011110100 1011010111 1001011101 1101111111 1101111111 1111110001 1100101010 1001010111 0101111111 0111010101 1011010101 0101110001 1011100101 0101000101 1110011111 0100010101 1011110101 11111100 0101010001 1111111101 01001010001 1111110001 0111110111 1011111101 1111010111 0101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
my, thy, and, of, to
Anaphora
my, was, they
Anadiplosis
vain, they