Beside The Idle Summer Sea
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Beside the idle summer sea,
And in the vacant summer days,
Light Love came fluting down the ways,
Where you were loitering with me.
Who have not welcomed even as we,
That jocund minstrel and his lays
Beside the idle summer sea
And in the vacant summer days?
We listened, we were fancy-free;
And lo! in terror and amaze
We stood alone – alone and gaze
With an implacable memory
Beside the idle summer sea.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABba abAB abbaA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
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