Analysis of The Beach
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Louder than gulls the little children scream
Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam;
But others fearlessly rush in, breast high,
Laughing the salty water from their mouthes--
Heroes of the nursery.
The horny boatman, who has seen whales
And flying fishes, who has sailed as far
As Demerara and the Ivory Coast,
Will warn them, when they crowd to hear his tales,
That every ocean smells of tar.
Scheme | XXXAX ABXAB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1011010101 11010101001 11011011 1001010111 1010100 010101111 0101011111 11001001 1111111111 110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 401 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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