Analysis of Give Me Freshening Breeze, My Boys
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
'Give me freshening breeze, my boys,
A white and swelling sail,
A ship that cuts the dashing waves,
And weathers every gale.
What life is like a sailor's life,
So free, so bold, so brave?
His home the ocean's wide expanse,
A coral bed his grave.'
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100111 010101 01110101 0101001 11110101 111111 11010101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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