This is an analysis of With Ships The Sea Was Sprinkled Far And Nigh by William Wordsworth.

With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,
Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaXcdcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110111 11010110001 1101110001 1101111111 0101001110 1101000101 1100010111 01001100101 0111011100 1101000101 0101010101 1011110101 1101110111 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, to, i

Anaphora

some