Analysis of The Seas of England
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
The seas of England are our old delight:
Let the loud billow of the shingly shore
Sing freedom on her breezes evermore
To all earth’s ships that sailing heave in sight!
The gaunt sea-nettle be our fortitude,
Sturdily blowing where the clear wave sips;
O, be the glory of our men and ships
Rapturous, woe unheeding hardihood!
There is great courage in a land that hath
Liberty guarded by the unearthly seas;
And ev’n to find peace at the last in these
How many a sailor hath sailed down to death!
Their names are like a splendour in an old song;
Their record shines like bays along the years;
Their jubilation is the cry man hears
Sailing sun-fronted the vast deeps among.
The seas of England are our old delight:
Let the loud billow of the shingly shore
Sing freedom on her breezes evermore
To all earth’s ships that sailing heave in sight!
Scheme | ABBA xcca xddx xxxx ABBA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01110110101 101101011 110101010 1111110101 0111011010 11010111 11010110101 100111 1111000111 10010100101 0111110101 11001011111 1111010111 1011110101 101010111 1011001101 01110110101 101101011 110101010 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 835 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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