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
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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