Analysis of Sea Shell
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Sea Shell, Sea Shell,
Sing me a song, O Please!
A song of ships, and sailor men,
And parrots, and tropical trees,
Of islands lost in the Spanish Main
Which no man ever may find again,
Of fishes and corals under the waves,
And seahorses stabled in great green caves.
Sea Shell, Sea Shell,
Sing of the things you know so well.
Scheme | Abcb xcdd Aa |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111 110111 01110101 01001001 110100101 111101101 1100101001 0110111 1111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 323 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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