Use the drop-down menus to answer the questions
about John Masefield's poem "Sea Fever."
How many stanzas are in the poem?
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and
the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white
sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn
breaking
What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza?
What poetic structure does Masefield use?
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the
running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea
gulls crying.
I must on down to the seas again to the vagrant une
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