Cottage by the sea
By Catherine Cao
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The waves wash up against the sand
as if greeting an old friend.
The reeds upon the shore wave
at the sand
shh
shh
Carrying the faint sent of
the flowers and the fish
towards that little
cream colored,
straw roofed,
Cottage by the sea.
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About
The "Cottage by the sea" describes a calm day at a little abandoned cottage by the sea. It is a freeform poem with no designated rhyme scheme, consisting of a single stanza of 12 lines.
The main poetic device used in this poem is imagery and personification. Imagery is used in the first line (the waves wash up against the sand)as well as lines 9, 10, and 11. Personification is used in several places (line 2,3,7). Also, there is one onomatopoeia used in lines 5 and 6 (shh) describing the rusting sound that the reeds make when the wind blows.
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