Analysis of Song At Santa Cruz
Francis Brett Young 1884 (Halesowen) – 1954 (Cape Town)
Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis:
Meeting lips and twining fingers
In the mild Atlantis springtime?
How should I know
If there were lovers in the lanes of Atlantis
When the dark sea drowned her mountains
Many ages ago?
Were there poets in the paths of Atlantis:
Eager poets, seeking beauty
To adorn the women they worshipped?
How can I say
If there were poets in the paths of Atlantis?
For the waters that drowned her mountains
Washed their beauty away.
Were there women in the ways of Atlantis:
Foolish women, who loved, as I do,
Dreaming that mortal love was deathless?
Ask me not now
If there were women in the ways of Atlantis:
There was no woman in all her mountains
Wonderful as thou!
Scheme | AXXBACB AXXDACD AXAEACE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100011010 10101010 0010101 1111 110100011010 10111010 101001 01100011010 10101010 101010110 1111 110100011010 101011010 111001 01100011010 101011111 10110111 1111 110100011010 1111001010 10011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 688 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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