Analysis of Haven
When symbols finally overcome their source
and I feel more the host and less the guest
in Mankind's pleasant house of fantasy
I shall return to where my heart can rest.
I shall wander on a Western shore
and build a place of quiet to abide
and watch the ebb and flow of endless skies
and muse upon the ways of man and tide.
By heather-perfumed sunlit gentle hills
that step so lightly down to greet the sea
beside white cliffs that guard the pebbled shore
where sea-birds carve their silent melody,
there will my mind be witness as it can
unto a world never made by Man.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGCDCHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001011 0111010101 0111011100 1101111111 111010101 0101110101 0101011101 0101011101 110011101 1111011101 011111011 1111110100 1111110111 100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 455 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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