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
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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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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