This is an analysis of Safety On The Shore by Robert Herrick.
What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore;
Ships have been drown'd, where late they danced before.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa
- Stanza lengths: 2,
- Metre: 1101011001 1101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 2