Analysis of When the Fishing Boats Go Out
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
When the lucent skies of morning flush with dawning rose once more,
And waves of golden glory break adown the sunrise shore,
And o'er the arch of heaven pied films of vapor float.
There's joyance and there's freedom when the fishing boats go out.
The wind is blowing freshly up from far, uncharted caves,
And sending sparkling kisses o'er the brows of virgin waves,
While routed dawn-mists shiveroh, far and fast they flee,
Pierced by the shafts of sunrise athwart the merry sea!
Behind us, fair, light-smitten hills in dappled splendor lie,
Before us the wide ocean runs to meet the limpid sky
Our hearts are full of poignant life, and care has fled afar
As sweeps the white-winged fishing fleet across the harbor bar.
The sea is calling to us in a blithesome voice and free,
There's keenest rapture on its breast and boundless liberty!
Each man is master of his craft, its gleaming sails out-blown,
And far behind him on the shore a home he calls his own.
Salt is the breath of ocean slopes and fresher blows the breeze,
And swifter still each bounding keel cuts through the combing seas,
Athwart our masts the shadows of the dipping sea-gulls float,
And all the water-world's alive when the fishing boats go out.
Scheme | AABC DDEE FFGG EEHH IIBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) |
Metre | 101011101110111 011101011011 01001110111101 1101101010111 01110101110101 010101010011101 1101110110111 110111010101 0111110101101 0110110111011 101111101011101 11011101010101 0111011001101 11010111010100 11110111110111 01011101011111 11011101010101 01011101110101 01101011010111 010101011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,221 |
Words | 218 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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