This is an analysis of Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley.
Beside the idle summer sea,
And in the vacant summer days,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABba abAB abbXA
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
- Metre: 01010101 10010101 11110101 11010001 111101011 11010101 01010101 10010101 11010101 11010101 11010111 010100100 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
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