Analysis of A Marine Etching
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
A yacht from its harbour ropes pulled free,
And leaped like a steed o’er the race track blue,
Then up behind her, the dust of the sea,
A gray fog, drifted, and hid her from view.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 011110111 0110110111 1101001101 0111001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 190 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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