Analysis of The Sailor's Return
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
This morn I lay a-dreaming,
This morn, this merry morn,
When the cock crew shrill from over the hill,
I heard a bugle horn.
And thro' the dream I was dreaming,
There sighed the sigh of the sea,
And thro' the dream I was dreaming,
This voice came singing to me.
'High over the breakers,
Low under the lee,
Sing ho
The billow,
And the lash of the rolling sea!
'Boat, boat, to the billow,
Boat, boat, to the lee!
Love on thy pillow,
Art thou dreaming of me?
'Billow, billow, breaking,
Land us low on the lee!
For sleeping or waking,
Sweet love, I am coming to thee!
'High, high, o'er the breakers,
Low, low, on the lee,
Sing ho!
The billow
That brings me back to thee!'
Scheme | abxb AcAc dcEEc ecec acac dcEEc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 111101 1011111001 110101 01011110 1101101 01011110 1111011 110010 11001 11 010 00110101 111010 11101 11110 111011 101010 111101 110110 11111011 1110010 11101 11 010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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