Analysis of Across the Sea Along the Shore
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)
Across the sea, along the shore,
In numbers more and ever more,
From lonely hut and busy town,
The valley through, the mountain down,
What was it ye went out to see,
Ye silly folk Galilee?
The reed that in the wind doth shake?
The weed that washes in the lake?
The reeds that waver, the weeds that float?
A young man preaching in a boat.
What was it ye went out to hear
By sea and land from far and near?
A teacher? Rather seek the feet
Of those who sit in Moses' seat.
Go humbly seek, and bow to them,
Far off in great Jerusalem.
From them that in her courts ye saw,
Her perfect doctors of the law,
What is it came ye here to note?
A young man preaching in a boat.
A prophet! Boys and women weak!
Declare, or cease to rave;
Whence is it he hath learned to speak?
Say, who his doctrine gave?
A prophet? Prophet wherefore he
Of all in Israel tribes?
He teacheth with authority,
And not as do the Scribes.
Scheme | aabbccddeExxffxxggeE hihicjcj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11111111 110110 01100111 01110001 011100111 01110001 11111111 11011101 01010101 11110101 11010111 11010100 11100111 00110101 11111111 01110001 01010101 011111 11111111 111101 0101011 1101001 1110100 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 8 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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