Analysis of Above the Dock
T. E. Hulme 1883 (Endon) – 1917 (Oostduinkerke)
Above the quiet dock in mid night,
Tangled in the tall mast’s corded height,
Hangs the moon. What seemed so far away
Is but a child’s balloon, forgotten after play.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 010101011 100011101 101111101 110101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 165 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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