Analysis of The Titanic
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea,
Did the waves from her proud bows foaming whisper what port should be?
That her maiden voyage was tending to a haven hushed and deep,
Where after the shock and the rending she should moor at the wharf of sleep?
Oh, her name shall be tale and token to all the ships that sail,
How her mighty heart was broken by blow of a crystal flail,
How in majesty still peerless her helpless head she bowed
And in light and music, fearless, plunged to her purple shroud.
Did gleams and dreams half-heeded, while the days so lightly ran,
Awaken the glory seeded from God in the soul of man?
For touched with a shining chrism, with love's fine grace imbued,
Men turned them to heroisim as it were but habitude.
O midnight strange and solemn, when the icebergs stood at gaze,
Death on one pallid column, to watch our human ways,
And saw throned Death defeated by a greater lord than he,
Immortal Life who greeted home-comers from the sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111100100101 101101110101111 1010101101010101 11001001011110111 101111010110111 101011101110101 10100110010111 00101010110101 11011101011101 010010101100111 1110101111101 1111111011 1110101010111 11110101110101 01110101010111 0101110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 973 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 773 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 182 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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