This is an analysis of By The Lake by Schack von Staffeldt.
And while all the waves are borne off apace,
I feel as if I there too had my place,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110111101 1110111111 1100001011 0111011011 0110111011 0100101001 1001001101 110110111 1101100101 1110111001 1011111111 1111111111 1100111011 1100101101 1010011101 0111001011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
you, i, and
Anaphora
my
