Analysis of The Coromandel Fishers
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.
Scheme | AABB CCXX XXBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1101011110101 0110100110110111111 11110101101011001001 110010110111101101 1100111100100110111 011101001110100111011 111110110110110111 1110110111011101 1101101100110101 01101101101101101011 1101100110100110111 110110110110111101 |
Characters | 945 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 60 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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