Analysis of Easton's Beach
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
LAST night I saw a city by the sea,
Outlined in sparks of fire;
Those wreathed lamps made all a fantasy -
Arch, dome and spire.
I saw above the waters pale and gray,
The pale moon stand,
I heard, but faint and sweet and far away,
A martial band.
The distant voices in the streets, the sound
Of laughter from the towers
Made where we swam the solitude profound:
The sea was ours.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1111010101 101110 111110100 1101 1101010101 0111 1111010101 0101 0101000101 1101010 111101001 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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