Analysis of Sea-Gifts
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
Give thou a gift to me
From thy treasure-house, O sea!
Said a red-lipped laughing girl
While the summer yet was young;
And the sea laughed back and flung
At her feet a priceless pearl.
Give thou a gift to me
From thy treasure-house, O sea!
Said the maiden once again
On a night of wind and rain.
Like a ghost the moon above her
Stared through winding-sheets of cloud.
On the sand in sea-weed shroud,
Lay the pale corpse of her lover.
Which is better, gain or loss?
Which is nobler, crown or cross?
We shall know these things, maybe,
When the dead rise from the sea.
Scheme | AA bc cb AA xx de ed ff aa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1110111 1011101 1010111 0011101 1010101 110111 1110111 1010101 1011101 10101010 1110111 1010111 10111010 1110111 1110111 1111110 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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