Analysis of Columbus
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
(12TH OCTOBER 1492)
From his adventurous prime
He dreamed the dream sublime:
Over his wandering youth
It hung, a beckoning star.
At last the vision fled,
And left him in its stead
The scarce sublimer truth,
The world he found afar.
The scattered isles that stand
Warding the mightier land
Yielded their maidenhood
To his imperious prow.
The mainland within call
Lay vast and virginal:
In its blue porch he stood:
No more did fate allow.
No more! but ah, how much,
To be the first to touch
The veriest azure hem
Of that majestic robe!
Lord of the lordly sea,
Earth's mightiest sailor he:
Great Captain among them,
The captors of the globe.
When shall the world forget
Thy glory and our debt,
Indomitable soul,
Immortal Genoese?
Not while the shrewd salt gale
Whines amid shroud and sail,
Above the rhythmic roll
And thunder of the seas.
Scheme | X AABCDDBC EEDFXXXF GGHIJJHI KKLXMMLX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1101001 110101 1011001 1101001 110101 011011 0111 011101 010111 1001001 1011 1101001 01011 110100 011111 111101 111111 110111 01101 110101 11011 1100101 110011 010101 110101 1100101 010001 01010 110111 101101 010101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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