Analysis of In The Shallows
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
AMONG the shallows where the sand
Is golden and the waves are small,
I love to lie, and to my hand
How many little treasures fall!
What shells and seaweed grace the shore,
What happy birds on happy wings,
And for companions, what a store
Of humble, happy, living things!
Yet the sea's depths are also mine,
And in the old days I used to dive
Into the caves, where corals shine
And where the shimmering mer-folk live.
I am the master of the sea
In deeps where fairy flowers uncurl;
That treasure-house belongs to me,
Those amber halls, those stairs of pearl.
But now thereto I go no more,
Because of all the argosies,
Deep sunk upon the ocean floor,
Where all the world's lost treasure lies.
Where loveless laughter curls the lips
Of wild sea creatures at their sport
About the bones of noble ships,
My ships, that never came to port.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 11000111 11110111 11010101 1101101 11011101 01010101 11010101 10111101 000111111 01011101 010100111 11010101 01110101 11010111 11011111 1111111 011101 11010101 11011101 11010101 11110111 01011101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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