Analysis of I Saw From the Beach
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining,
A bark o'er the waters move gloriously on;
I came when the sun o'er that beach was declining,
The bark was still there, but the waters were gone.
And such is the fate of our life's early promise,
So passing the spring-tide of joy we have known;
Each wave that we danced on at morning ebbs from us,
And leaves us, at eve, on the bleak shore alone.
Oh, who would not welcome that moment's returning
When passion first waked a new life through his frame,
And his soul, like the wood that grows precious in burning,
Gave out all its sweets to love's exquisite flame.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC ADAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111011010110 0110010110001 1110110111010 01111101001 0110111011010 11001111111 111111110111 01111101101 111110110010 11011011111 0111011110010 11111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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