Across
- 1. Rhymes with oyster-shells.
- 5. Last word of the fifth question asked by the poem itself.
- 7. Celestial object that the poem contemplates rolling.
- 9. What falls from chimneys.
- 10. Person who is an easy tool.
- 14. Another term for mermaids.
- 15. Measuring instrument in the poem.
- 17. The color you get when you take all of the colors mentioned in the poem, put them in alphabetical order, remove the letter w, and then string together the first, second, eighth, ninth, twelfth, and eighteenth letters left over.
- 18. Number of syllables in the fifth stanza (excluding initial quote).
- 21. The poem that the quote at the beginning of the poem is from.
- 23. What can be parted behind.
- 25. One of the colors of seaweed.
- 26. Time of day in line 50 missing from line 75.
Down
- 2. Rhymes with flicker.
- 3. What the speaker of the poem and the waves of the sea have in common.
- 4. Rhymes with revisions.
- 6. Number of ellipses in the poem.
- 8. What saying just what you mean is.
- 11. What the women talk of.
- 12. The third to last edible item mentioned in the poem.
- 13. The color mentioned the most times.
- 16. Allusion to "To be or not to be."
- 19. Author of the poem.
- 20. What the eternal Footman arguably represents.
- 22. The month before the month mentioned in the poem.
- 24. Can be used to assert something and can be sprawled upon.