Analysis of Pieter Marinus
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
LORD, I have known all fruits of this thy world;
Like Solomon king, I have been fain of all,–
War, women, and wine,–but mine was spirit of Nantes.
And now, O Lord, I'm old and fain for Thee.
But, Lord, my soul's so grimed and weather-worn,
So warped and wrung with all iniquities,
Piracies, brawls, and cheated revenues,
There's not a saint but would look twice at it.
So, when my time comes, send no angels down
With lutes, and harps, and foreign instruments,
To pipe old Pieter's spirit up to heaven
Past his tall namesake sturdy at his post.
But let me lie awhile in these Thy seas.
Let the soft Gulf Stream and the long South Drift,
And the swift tides that rim the Labrador,
Beat on my soul and wash it clean again.
And when Thy waves have smoothed me of my sins,
White as the sea-mew or the wind-spun foam,
Clean as the clear-cut images of stars
That swing between the swells,–then, then, O Lord,
Lean out, lean out from heaven and call me thus,
'Come up, thou soul of Pieter Marinus,'
And I'll go home.
Scheme | XXAXXAXX XXXX XXXX XBXXXAB |
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Metre | 1111111111 11001111111 110011111011 0111110111 1111110101 1101111 1101010 1101111111 1111111101 1101010100 1111101110 111110111 1111010111 1011100111 001111010 1111011101 0111111111 1101110111 1101110011 1101011111 11111100111 11111101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,003 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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