This is an analysis of Sea Longing by Sara Teasdale.

A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall
Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadaadXd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01010010111 1101110101 01011000101 0011011100 0101111111 1101011111 1111111111 1111010101 1111011101 0101000111 1001011101 1001011110 1101010101 1101110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anaphora

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