This poem appears to be very simple in its grammatical structure. It is full of straightforward but very exact words that describe precisely what the author wants the reader to read. These words are not heavy in descriptions. They have one or two pre and post-modifications and it goes right to the next clause. The style is plain, clear and free from ambiguities, not very descriptive leaving the descriptions to the imagination of the reader and to his/her ability to discover the meanings. .
Although the style is simple and it creates no problems when reading it, it has many hidden meanings that are not so easy to grasp at the first reading. They are covered by the metaphors used. These metaphors are very important for the style of the poem because the grammatical style does not include a lot of descriptive words, but when the reader discovers the meaning wrapped in those metaphors the poem gets full of color and expresses more adjectival phrases in the mind of the reader than a poem with many adjectives but few metaphorical images. .
The structure of the poem follows a constant pattern until the end. There are no surprises concerning changes in form. It starts by giving the reader a future tense and ends up with a past, making the reader aware that it "death "has come true. It has a tone of sadness, of melancholy and also resignation to what will come and cannot be evaded. This tone is made clear with the selection of words such as: moaning, boundless deep, twilight, dark, sadness, farewell, embark, flood, crossed'. The usage of the SV(X) elements are not followed according to the everyday writing, but it does not create notorious syntactic or semantic ambiguities. The rhyme of the poem is simple too, it is A, B, A, B and the same pattern continues in the rest of the stanzas. .
This poem is simple and easy to read for anyone who likes to read. It appears to be a normal voyage to the sea at first.