Analysis of O, water, voice of my heart...

Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945



O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand,
All night long crying with a mournful cry,
As I lie and listen, and cannot understand
The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea,
O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I?
All night long the water is crying to me.

Unresting water, there shall never be rest
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail,
And the fire of the end begin to burn in the west;
And the heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea,
All life long crying without avail,
As the water all night long is crying to me.


Scheme ABACBC DEDCEC
Poetic Form
Metre 110111110001 1111010101 11101001001 01111011101101 1101011111111 11101011011 110111011 1011100111 00101010111001 001111001001101 111100101 101011111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 560
Words 120
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 215
Words per stanza (avg) 59
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 15, 2023

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Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons, was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. more…

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