Analysis of The Sea Maid
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
In what pearl-paven mossy cave
By what green sea
Art thou reclining, virgin of the wave,
In realms more full of splendid mystery
Than that strong northern flood whence came
The rise and fall of music in thy name --
Thy waiting name, Oithona!
The magic of the sea's own change
In depth and height,
From where the eternal order'd billows range
To unknown regions of sleep-weary night,
Fills, like a wonder-waking spell
Whispered by lips of some lone-murmuring shell,
Thy dreaming soul, Oithona.
In gladness of thy reverie
What gracious form
Will fly the errand of our love to thee,
By ways with winged messengers aswarm
Through dawn of opalescent skies,
To say the time is come and bid thee rise
And be our child, Oithona?
Scheme | ABABCCD EFEFGGD BXBCHHD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 1111 1101010101 0111110100 11110111 0101110011 11011 01010111 0101 11001010101 1011011101 11010101 10111111001 11011 0111100 1101 11010110111 11111001 11111 1101110111 011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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