Stanza One

internal rhyme - not much alliteration, but

‘The Sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,’

the parallelism and asyndeton make the speaker’s observations feel quick and straightforward, surging feeling

personification adding to feeling of temptation

Stanza Two

‘the Deep’ - metonony, of the sea or the ocean - symbolic of the speaker staring into the abyss, representative of mental darkness

‘Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown' continuous false positivity of the poem's mood, vivid and dense, with ‘star-showers' being an effective compressed description* could be seen as a reference to Ariel’s change in ‘The Tempest'

‘I sit upon the sands alone --’ ending with ‘alone’ then the dash = caesura, introducing volta & a change in mood, but establishes a feeling of isolation and hopelessness

Repetition of ‘I see' and ‘I sit’, representative of the Romantic focus on the speaker's own sensory experiences & internal reflection- lending itself to the speaker retelling a memory in a moment of introspection

‘How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion.’ -

Stanza Three

Tone of envy throughout- jealousy

following ‘nor' is a positive word - reflecting his overwhelming feelings of woe and unhappiness with life

‘Others I see’ - nod towards Lord Byron

Stanza Four

Contrast between internal feelings and external outlook - implicit desire not to live

Stanza Five

Elegiac rhyme ‘cold' ‘old'

enjambment reflects his broken thought despite that he should feel uplifted

‘-for I am one whom men love not-’ subordinate clause

Romanticism

Morbidity & Lamentation

Isolation and victimising