Analysis of Sea Grief
Dowell O'Reilly 1865 (Sydney) – 1923 (Leura, Blue Mountains)
Along the serried coast the Southerly raves,
Grey birds scream landward through the distance hoar,
And, swinging from the dim confounded shore,
The everlasting boom of broken waves
Like muffled thunder rolls about the graves
Of all the wonder-lands and lives of yore,
Whose bones asunder bleach for evermore,
In sobbing chasms and under choking caves:
O breaking heart—whose only rest is rage,
White tossing arms, and lips that kiss and part
In lonely dreams of love's wild ecstasy,
Not the mean earth thy suffering can assuage
Nor highest heaven fulfil thy hungry heart,
O fair full-bosomed passionate weeping sea.
Scheme | ABBA ABBA CDE CDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101001 1111010101 0101010101 001011101 1101010101 1101010111 110101110 0101010101 1101110111 1101011101 0101111100 10111100101 1101011101 1111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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