Analysis of The Coast: Norfolk
Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)
As on the highway's quiet edge
He mows the grass beside the hedge,
The old man has for company
The distant, grey, salt-smelling sea,
A poppied field, a cow and calf,
The finches on the telegraph.
Across his faded back a hone,
He slowly, slowly scythes alone
In silence of the wind-soft air,
With ladies' bedstraw everywhere,
With whitened corn, and tarry poles,
And far-off gulls like risen souls.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101 11010101 01111100 01011101 0110101 0101010 01110101 11010101 01010111 110110 1110101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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