Analysis of The Half-Ring Moon
John Bannister Tabb 1845 (Amelia County) – 1909 ( Ellicott City)
Over the sea, over the sea,
My love he is gone to a far countrie;
But he brake a golden ring with me
The pledge of his faith to be.
Over the sea, over the sea,
He comes no more from the far countrie;
But at night, where the new moon loved to be,
Hangs the half of a ring for me.
Scheme | Abaa Abaa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10011001 111111011 111010111 0111111 10011001 11111011 1111011111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 279 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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