Analysis of The Last Port

Frank Wilmot 1881 (Collingwood) – 1942



I WROUGHT and battled and wept, near and afar  
I scanned the secret of the bud and star.  

Hill-road and desert, and the hurrying street  
Know well the impress of my restless feet!  

Then some one came with soft, caressing glance,          
Slow, like a woman out of all romance.  

Love closed around me these warm, folded wings—  
That was the end of all my wanderings.


Scheme AA BB CC DD
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 11010011001 1101010101 11010001001 1100111101 1111110101 1101011101 1101111101 1101111100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 378
Words 67
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Frank Wilmot

Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot, who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, was a noted Australian poet, best known for To God: From the Warring Nations. more…

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