Analysis of A Ship Sails up to Bideford
Herbert Asquith 1881 – 1947
A ship sails up to Bideford;
Upon a western breeze,
Mast by mast, sail over sail,
She rises from the seas,
And sights the hills of Devon
And the misty English trees.
She comes from Eastern islands;
The sun is in her hold;
She bears the fruit of Jaffa,
Dates, oranges and gold;
She brings the silk of China,
And bales of Persian dyes,
And birds with sparkling feathers
And snakes with diamond eyes.
She’s gliding in the starlight
As white as any gull;
The east is gliding with her
In the shadows of her hull.
A ship sails up to Bideford;
Upon a western breeze,
With fruits of Eastern summers
She rises from the seas,
And sights the hills of Devon
And the misty English trees.
Scheme | ABxBCB xada defe agxg ABfBCB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 010101 1111101 110101 0101110 0010101 1111010 011001 1101110 110001 1101110 011101 0111010 011101 110001 111101 0111010 001101 011111 010101 1111010 110101 0101110 0010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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