Analysis of Irony
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
An arid daylight shines along the beach
Dried to a grey monotony of tone,
And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon
The sun-baked pebbles, far beyond their reach
Sparkles a wet, reviving sea. Here bleach
The skeletons of fishes, every bone
Polished and stark, like traceries of stone,
The joints and knuckles hardened each to each.
And they are dead while waiting for the sea,
The moon-pursuing sea, to come again.
Their hearts are blown away on the hot breeze.
Only the shells and stones can wait to be
Washed bright. For living things, who suffer pain,
May not endure till time can bring them ease.
Scheme | ABCAABBADEFDGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110101 1101010011 0101011101 0111010111 1001010111 01001101001 10011111 0101010111 0111110101 0101011101 1111011011 1001011111 1111011101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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