Analysis of Look To The Sea
the soft decor of a silhouette perched closely to me
I smile o'er the wrinkled blue
Lo! the sea is fair,
Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair;
And the welkin's light shines through
Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue,
And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing,
And the sea is a beautiful, sinuous thing!
I scowl in sullen guise
The sea grows dark and dun,
The swift clouds hide the sun
But not the bale-light in my eyes,
And the frightened wind as it flies
Ruffles the billows with stormy wing,
And the sea is a terrible, treacherous thing!
When moonlight glimmers dim
I pass in the path of the mist,
Like a pale spirit by spirits kissed.
At dawn I chant my own weird hymn,
And I dabble my hair in the sunset's rim,
And I call to the dwellers along the shore
With a voice of gramarye evermore.
And if one for love of me
Gives to my call an ear,
I will woo him and hold him dear,
And teach him the way of the sea,
And my glamor shall ever over him be;
Though he wander afar in the cities of men
He will come at last to my arms again.
Scheme | ABCCBBDD EFFEEDD GHHGGII AXXAAJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100111011 11100101 10111 11011011 001111 0111101101 0010110011 00110100101 110101 011101 011101 11011011 00101111 100101101 001101001001 11101 11001101 101101101 11111111 0110110011 01110100101 1011110 0111111 111111 11110111 01101101 01101101011 111001001011 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,049 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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