Analysis of Morning along Shore
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Hark, oh hark the elfin laughter
All the little waves along,
As if echoes speeding after
Mocked a merry merman's song!
All the gulls are out, delighting
In a wild, uncharted quest
See the first red sunshine smiting
Silver sheen of wing and breast!
Ho, the sunrise rainbow-hearted
Steals athwart the misty brine,
And the sky where clouds have parted
Is a bowl of amber wine!
Sweet, its cradle-lilt partaking,
Dreams that hover o'er the sea,
But the lyric of its waking
Is a sweeter thing to me!
Who would drowze in dull devotion
To his ease when dark is done,
And upon its breast the ocean
Like a jewel wears the sun?
"Up, forsake a lazy pillow!"
Calls the sea from cleft and cave,
Ho, for antic wind and billow
When the morn is on the wave!
Scheme | ABAB CDBD EFEF BGCG HHHH IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101010 1010101 11101010 101011 10111010 0010101 101111 1011101 101110 1010101 00111110 1011101 111011 11101001 10101110 1010111 11101010 1111111 00111010 1010101 10101010 1011101 11101010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 733 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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