In the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield, where does the meter reinforce the sense of the poem—the kick of the wheel and the roll of the...

The meter is iambic and anapestic heptameter (seven feet
and 14-21 syllables). It is mostly iambic which is an unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed syllable (da DUM). But some anapestic feet are mixed in. An anapestic foot
consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (da da DUM). There
also a few feet made of just one stressed syllable. The iamb comes very natural to the
English language. In this poem, it has a sing-song quality. This makes it sound natural
and jaunty like a chantey, which is a song chanted by sailors as they work. The first
two lines in heptameter, with iambs and anapests, would sound like
this:

(da DUM
- da DUM – da da DUM – da DUM – da da DUM – da DUM – da da
DUM)

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea
and the sky,

(da DUM - da DUM – da da DUM – DUM – da da DUM
– da DUM – da DUM)

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star
to steer her by,

Since it
sounds like a chantey, a sea song, this reinforces the theme of the poem which is a
fever for the sea. The cadence also swings back and forth. This symbolizes the ebb and
flow of the tide and the rocking of the boat: the “wheel’s kick and the wind’s
song.”