Analysis of The Fierce Dashing Sea
Here is where you find me
As the coastal gales blow;
Gazing o'er the fierce sea.
And where I long to be,
This salted fuming show,
Here is where you find me.
Upon a cliff top free,
Above the ebbing flow,
Gazing o'er the fierce sea.
Or on the seaway quay
Where age-old sailors go;
Here is where you find me.
Breathless in a wild spree,
My senses all aglow,
Gazing o'er the fierce sea.
A roaring gift is she
I'll spend my life, I know;
Here is where you find me
Gazing o'er the fierce sea.
Scheme | AbA abA abA abA abA abAA |
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Poetic Form | Villanelle |
Metre | 111111 101011 1010011 011111 110101 111111 010111 010101 1010011 11011 111101 111111 100011 110101 1010011 010111 111111 111111 1010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
This is a six syllable Villanelle - 1980
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