Analysis of Cape Cod
George Santayana 1863 (Madrid) – 1952 (Rome)
The low sandy beach and the thin scrub pine,
The wide reach of bay and the long sky line,—
O, I am sick for home!
The salt, salt smell of the thick sea air,
And the smooth round stones that the ebbtides wear,—
When will the good ship come?
The wretched stumps all charred and burned,
And the deep soft rut where the cartwheel turned,—
Why is the world so old?
The lapping wave, and the broad gray sky
Where the cawing crows and the slow gulls fly,
Where are the dead untold?
The thin, slant willows by the flooded bog,
The huge stranded hulk and the floating log,
Sorrow with life began!
And among the dark pines, and along the flat shore,
O the wind, and the wind, for evermore!
What will become of man?
Scheme | AAX BBX CCD EED XXF GGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110100111 0111100111 111111 011110111 001111011 110111 01011101 001111011 110111 010100111 101100111 110101 011110101 0110100101 101101 001011001011 101001110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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