Analysis of St. Andrew's Bay
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
Ah, listen through the music, from the shore,
The 'melancholy long-withdrawing roar';
Beneath the Minster, and the windy caves,
The wide North Ocean, marshalling his waves
Even so forlorn--in worlds beyond our ken -
May sigh the seas that are not heard of men;
Even so forlorn, prophetic of man's fate,
Sounded the cold sea-wave disconsolate,
When none but God might hear the boding tone,
As God shall hear the long lament alone,
When all is done, when all the tale is told,
And the gray sea-wave echoes as of old!
This was the burden of the Night,
The saying of the sea,
But lo! the hours have brought the light,
The laughter of the waves, the flight
Of dipping sea-birds, foamy white,
That are so glad to be!
'Forget!' the happy creatures cry,
'Forget Night's monotone,
With us be glad in sea and sky,
The days are thine, the days that fly,
The days God gives to know him by,
And not the Night alone!'
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF GHGGGHIEIIIE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 010010101 0101000101 01110111 101010101101 1101111111 10101010111 1001111 111111011 1111010101 1111110111 0011110111 11010101 010101 110101101 01010101 11011101 111111 01010101 01110 11110101 01110111 01111111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 902 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 346 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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