Analysis of Man Overboard
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
YOUNG, the naked stoker who went
Mad with the fires and leapt to the sea,
Boyhood still in the voice that sent
One shrill cry back from eternity.
Perchance from the phosphorescent gleams
That shot through our wake of swirling foam,
On his delirious brain flashed dreams
Of a waiting mother, an English home.
The ocean clad him in cool, soft robe;
The ship fled on, as the guilty flee;
And the sun, a crimson-belted globe,
Slipped down to comfort him under the sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011 1101001101 1100111 111110100 011011 1111011101 110100111 1010101101 010110111 011110101 001010101 1111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 367 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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