Analysis of A Voyage
Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 (Edinburgh) – 1930 (Crowborough)
Breathing the stale and stuffy air
Of office or consulting room,
Our thoughts will wander back to where
We heard the low Atlantic boom,
And, creaming underneath our screw,
We watched the swirling waters break,
Silver filagrees on blue
Spreading fan-wise in our wake.
Cribbed within the city's fold,
Fettered to our daily round,
We'll conjure up the haze of gold
Which ringed the wide horizon round.
And still we'll break the sordid day
By fleeting visions far and fair,
The silver shield of Vigo Bay,
The long brown cliff of Finisterre.
Where once the Roman galley sped,
Or Moorish corsair spread his sail,
By wooded shore, or sunlit head,
By barren hill or sea-washed vale
We took our way. But we can swear,
That many countries we have scanned,
But never one that could compare
With our own island mother-land.
The dream is o'er. No more we view
The shores of Christian or of Turk,
But turning to our tasks anew,
We bend us to our wonted work.
But there will come to you and me
Some glimpse of spacious days gone by,
The wide, wide stretches of the sea,
The mighty curtain of the sky,
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA HIHI AJAJ CKCK LMLM |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10010101 11010101 101110111 11010101 0101101 11010101 10111 10110101 1010101 10110101 11010111 11010101 01110101 11010101 01011101 011111 11010101 11010111 1101111 11011111 111011111 11010111 11011101 110110101 011101111 01110111 110110101 11111011 11111101 11110111 01110101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,082 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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