Analysis of The Fisher
Roderic Quinn 1867 (Surry Hills, New South Wales) – 1949 (Darlinghurst, New South Wales)
ALL night a noise of leaping fish
Went round the bay,
And up and down the shallow sands
Sang waters at their play.
The mangroves drooped on salty creeks,
And through the dark,
Making a pale patch in the deep,
Gleamed, as it swam, a shark.
In streaks and twists of sudden fire
Among the reeds
The bream went by, and where they passed
The bubbles shone like beads.
All night the full deep drinking-song
Of Nature stirred,
And nought beside, save leaping fish
And some forlorn night-bird.
No lost wind wandered down the hills
To tell of wide
Wild waterways; on velvet moved
The silky, sucking tide.
Deep down there sloped in shadowy mass
A giant hill;
And midway, mirrored in the tide,
The stars burned large and still.
The fisher, dreaming on the rocks,
Heard Nature say
Strange, secret things that none may hear
Upon the beaten way;
And whisperings and wonder stirred,
And hopes and fears,
And sadness touched his heart, and filled
His eyes with star-stained tears:
And so, thrilled through with joy and love
And sweet distress,
He stood entranced, enchained by her
Full-breasted loveliness.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1101 01010101 110111 0111101 0101 10011001 111101 010111010 0101 01110111 010111 11011101 1101 01011101 010111 11110101 1111 1101101 010101 111101001 0101 0110001 011101 01010101 1101 11011111 010101 010101 0101 01011101 111111 01111101 0101 1101110 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 865 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 190 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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