Analysis of My Grief on the Sea
Douglas Hyde 1860 (Castlerea, County Roscommon) – 1949 (Little Ratra, Phoenix Park, Dublin)
MY grief on the sea,
How the waves of it roll!
For they heave between me
And the love of my soul!
Abandon'd, forsaken,
To grief and to care,
Will the sea ever waken
Relief from despair?
My grief and my trouble!
Would he and I were,
In the province of Leinster,
Or County of Clare!
Were I and my darling--
O heart-bitter wound!--
On board of the ship
For America bound.
On a green bed of rushes
All last night I lay,
And I flung it abroad
With the heat of the day.
And my Love came behind me,
He came from the South;
His breast to my bosom,
His mouth to my mouth.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXDD XEXE XFXF AGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11101 101111 111011 001111 010010 11011 1011010 01101 110110 11010 001011 11011 010110 11101 11101 101001 1011110 11111 011101 101101 0111011 11101 111110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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