Analysis of By The Sea
George Essex Evans 1863 (London) – 1909 (Toowoomba)
Bright skies of summer o’er the deep,
And soft salt air along the land,
The blue wave, lisping in its sleep,
Sinks gently on the yellow sand;
And gray-winged seagulls slowly sweep
O’er scattered bush and white-limbed tree
Where the red cliffs like bastions stand
To front the salvos of the sea,
Now lulled by its own melody.
Yonder the rising waters ride,
O’er ironstone masses, celled and worn;
There, gnarled and bent by wind and tide,
A single mangrove stands forlorn,
Alone in melancholy pride
A symbol of the soul of man
In Life’s wild surges tossed and torn,
That yearns amid the battle’s van
For the vast good it may not scan.
Along this silent shining sand
Come, brother of my heart, with me,
Tho’ I have never felt thine hand
And tho’ thine eyes I ne’er may see,
Yet somewhere or by sea or land
Thine heart and mine keep equal beat,
And in Life’s strange eternity
Responsive souls perchance may meet,
And know each other ere they greet.
Begone regret and carking care
That to the murky world belong
The chimes of earth and sea and air
Ring softened here to elfin song.
Come, friend of solitude, to where
The low dark jetty meets the blaze
Of sky and waters slumbering long,
Here let us dream while ocean plays
The mystic chants of golden days.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 01110101 0111011 11010101 0111101 11010111 10111101 11010101 11111100 10010101 1110101 11011101 0101101 0101001 01010111 01110101 11010101 10111111 01110101 11011111 11110111 01111111 1111111 11011101 00110100 01010111 01110111 101011 11010101 01110101 11011101 1111011 01110101 110101001 11111101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,246 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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