Analysis of A Burnt Ship
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.
| Scheme | ABBACC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 1101011111 1101110101 1111010111 1011111101 1101100101 1001101100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 298 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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