This is an analysis of The Sea Is Full Of Wandering Foam by William Ernest Henley.

The sea is full of wandering foam,
The sky of driving cloud;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 010101001 010101 11010101 010111 110101101 110011 01110101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Anaphora

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