Analysis of Come O'er the Sea

Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)



Come o'er the sea,
Maiden with me,
Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Let fate frown on, so we love and part not;
'Tis life where thou art, 'tis death were thou are not.
Then come o'er the sea,
Maiden with me,
Come wherever the wild wind blows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where'er it goes.

Was not the sea
Made for the Free,
Land for courts and chains alone?
Here we are slaves,
But, on the waves,
Love and Liberty's all our own.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us --
Then come o'er the sea,
Maiden, with me,
Mine through sunshine, storms, and snows
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where'er it goes.


Scheme aAbCCBddAAbCCB aaeffeggAAbCCB
Poetic Form
Metre 11001 1011 111101 1011 1011 1011011 1111111011 11111110111 111001 1011 10100111 1011 1011 1011011 1101 1101 1110101 1111 1101 101001101 1111011111 11010110011 111001 1011 111101 1011 1011 1011011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 779
Words 150
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 14
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 290
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer more…

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