"Child Harold's pilgrimage is a poem written by Lord Byron which was published between 1812-1818. The stanza describes the pleasure and terrors of swimming. The speaker believes that people have no control over the sea. the central theme can be said to be the permanence of the ocean.
The rhyme scheme of the poem is ababab cdcdd efefef. the poem made Byron to say "i awoke one morning and found myself famous." this shows that the poem brought fame to Byron.
The poem is written in the "Spenserian stanza. the spenserian stanza contains eight iambic pantemetre lines followed by a twelve syllabic iambic line known as alexandrie. The poem also created romantic archetype known as the "Bryomic hero"
