Analysis of Sea Sorcery
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Oh how I love the laughing sea,
Sun lances splintering;
Or with a virile harmony
In salty caves to sing;
Or mumbling pebbles on the shore,
Or roused to monster might:
By day I love the sea, but more
I love it in the night.
High over ocean hangs my home
And when the moon is clear
I stare and stare till fairy foam
Is music in my ear;
Till glamour dances to a tune
No mortal man could make;
And there bewitched beneath the moon
To beauty I awake.
Then though I seek my bed again
And close the shutters tight,
Still, still I hear that wild refrain
And see that mystic light . . .
Oh reckon me a crazy loon,
But blesséd I will be
If my last seeing be the moon,
My last sound--the Sea.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EXEXFGFG XDXDFAFA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11100 11010100 010111 110010101 111101 11110111 111001 11010111 010111 11011101 110011 11010101 110111 01010101 110101 11111101 010101 11111101 011101 11010101 111111 11110101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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