Analysis of The ocean said to me once,
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
The ocean said to me once,
"Look!
Yonder on the shore
Is a woman, weeping.
I have watched her.
Go you and tell her this --
Her lover I have laid
In cool green hall.
There is wealth of golden sand
And pillars, coral-red;
Two white fish stand guard at his bier.
"Tell her this
And more --
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With a surplus of toys."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 1 10101 101010 1110 110101 010111 0111 1111101 010101 11111111 101 01 101101 111101 01001 111110 0111101 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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