Analysis of The City By the Sea -- San Francisco
George Sterling 1869 (Sag Harbor) – 1926
At the end of our streets is sunrise;
At the end of our streets are spars;
At the end of our streets is sunset;
At the end of our streets the stars.
Ever the winds of morning
Are cool from the flashing sea-
Flowing swift from our ocean,
Till the fog-dunes crumble and flee.
Slender spars in the offing,
Mast and yard in the slips-
How they tell on the azure
Of the sea-contending ships!
Homeward into the sunset
Sill unwearied we go,
Till the northern hills are misty
With the amber of afterglow.
Stars that sink to our ocean,
Winds that visit our strand,
The heavens are your pathway,
Where is a gladder land!
At the end of our streets is sunrise;
At the end of our streets are spars;
At the end of our streets is sunset;
At the end of our streets the stars.
Scheme | AABC defe dgxg bheh fixi AABC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 101110111 101110111 101110111 101110101 1001110 1110101 10111010 10111001 1010010 101001 1111010 1010101 100101 1111 10101110 1010110 11111010 1110101 010111 11011 101110111 101110111 101110111 101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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