Analysis of A Picture
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
The Sun burns fiercely down the skies;
The sea is full of flashing eyes;
The waves glide shoreward serpentwise
And fawn with foamy tongues on stark
Gray rocks, each sharp-toothed as a shark,
And hiss in clefts and channels dark.
Blood-purple soon the waters grow,
As though drowned sea-kings fought below
Forgotten fights of long ago.
The gray owl Dusk its wings has spread;
The sun sinks in a blossom-bed
Of poppy-clouds; the day is dead.
Scheme | AAABBB CCC DDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 01111101 011101 01110111 11111101 01010101 11010101 11111101 01011101 01111111 01100101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 439 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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