This is an analysis of By The Sea by Sara Teasdale.

Beside an ebbing northern sea
While stars awaken one by one,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aba cXc ddd ebe ded fXf gegXaea
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Metre: 01110101 11010111 11010111 11101101 11110101 01110101 01110011 11010101 11110101 01010001 11111101 11111101 01110101 110100111 10000111 110100111 11111101 11000111 10111111 01010101 11111101 101101001 11110101 011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

he, my

Anaphora

he

Anadiplosis

he