Analysis of The Full Sea Rolls And Thunders
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
The full sea rolls and thunders
In glory and in glee.
O, bury me not in the senseless earth
But in the living sea!
Ay, bury me where it surges
A thousand miles from shore,
And in its brotherly unrest
I'll range for evermore.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111010 010001 1101100101 100101 11011110 010111 00110001 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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