Analysis of At The Ship’s Rail
Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)
The blue sea bends to the ship
Like a dancer with skirts of lace—
Wide diaphanous laces that curl and dip
In the ardent wind's embrace.
Little rainbows dash at the play
And die of joy in the sun;
While over and under, the long bright day,
The sparkling footsteps run.
Lovely, melodious
Is the sound of the dance on the sea.
Softly the white robes trail and toss
Over blue waves that flee.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111101 10101111 10100101101 0010101 1011101 0111001 1100100111 01011 100100 101101101 10011101 101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 390 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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