Analysis of The Three Fishers
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
1 Three fishers went sailing away to the west,
2 Away to the west as the sun went down;
3 Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,
4 And the children stood watching them out of the town;
5 For men must work, and women must weep,
6 And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
7 Though the harbour bar be moaning.
8 Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower,
9 And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down;
10 They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower,
11 And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown.
12 But men must work, and women must weep,
13 Though storms be sudden, and waters deep,
14 And the harbour bar be moaning.
15 Three corpses lay out on the shining sands
16 In the morning gleam as the tide went down,
17 And the women are weeping and wringing their hands
18 For those who will never come home to the town;
19 For men must work, and women must weep,
20 And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep;
21 And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
Scheme | ABABCCD EBEBCCD FBFBCCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001101 0110110111 11101011101 001011011101 111101011 01101101011 10101110 111100110 0110110111 111010111010 001111011001 111101011 111100101 00101110 1101110101 0010110111 001011001011 11111011101 111101011 001011001011 0111010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,114 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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