Analysis of A Coarse Morning
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
OH the yellow boisterous sea,
The surging, chafing, murderous sea!
And the wind-gusts hurtle the torn clouds by,
On to the south through a shuddering sky,
And the bare black ships scud aloof from the land.
'Tis as like the day as can be,
When the ship came in sight that came never to strand,
The ship that was blown on the sunken sand—
And he coming back to me!
Oh the great white snake of foam,
The coiling, writhing, snake of white foam,
Hissing and huddering out in the bay,
Over the banks where the wrecked ship lay,
Over the sands where the dead may lie deep!
There are some in the churchyard loam,
Some two or three the sea flung to our keep:
Their mothers can sit by a grave to weep,
But my son never came home.
Never, never, living or dead—
Oh, never, Willie, living or dead,
Could you keep your word and come back to me!
Oh, my darling! As like this day as can be,
When the ship came in sight that came never to strand,
When the ship came rounding the head,
Close to the haven and close to the sand.—
And their graves are long green that were tossed to land.
Ah, 'Sure to come back,' he said!
Scheme | aabbcaCca ddeefdffd ggaaCgccg |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101001 010101001 0011100111 1101101001 00111101101 11101111 101101111011 0111110101 0110111 1011111 01101111 10011001 100110111 1001101111 1110011 11110111101 1101110111 1111011 10101011 110101011 1111101111 11101111111 101101111011 10111001 1101001101 01111110111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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