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 |
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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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