This is an analysis of Man Sails The Deep Awhile by Robert Louis Stevenson.

MAN sails the deep awhile;
Loud runs the roaring tide;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaba bccbcb caacac bXdbdb effefe
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 110101 110101 011111 10100110100101 0100101 0100101 110101 100101 111101 1001001001 110101 010101 111101 111101 111101 1101010101 110100 010101 110111 110111 101111 1111111101 100111 111101 111111 010101 111111 1101110101 110101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

o, that, you

Anaphora

the, hope, o, there