Analysis of The Voyage
by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
Set sail on an ocean,
An unknown sea,
At times adrift, unknown destination,
No compass or charts to see.
No return to original harbor
I must sail on,
Perilous to halt, cannot anchor
In this ship not chosen.
Yet I am captain,
And crew, and then
First mate,
Navigator and helmsman.
Still there are lighthouse beacons
On which I depend and rely,
And fleets I seek to join
To find my way on.
To avoid sinking in my cosmic trip
Or being forever lost at sea,
Becoming a ghost ship,
Afloat, but adrift, only me.
To sail the world as a luxury cruise
Or a warship from one battle to the next,
Decided at time of launch in Destiny’s plan
For what storms and ships will be seen on this voyage of man.
This fateful voyage
Is, of course, my life.
The charted course of this passage,
I, the captain, will sail through storms or strife.
Scheme | X ABAB CDCA AXXE XXXD FBFB XXEE GHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 111110 1011 110101010 1101111 1011010010 1111 100111010 011110 11110 0101 11 10001 111110 11101001 011111 11111 1011001101 110010111 010011 01101101 1101101001 1011110101 101111011 11101111111011 11010 11111 01011110 1010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 860 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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