Analysis of Young Sea
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
The sea is never still.
It pounds on the shore
Restless as a young heart,
Hunting.
The sea speaks
And only the stormy hearts
Know what it says:
It is the face
of a rough mother speaking.
The sea is young.
One storm cleans all the hoar
And loosens the age of it.
I hear it laughing, reckless.
They love the sea,
Men who ride on it
And know they will die
Under the salt of it
Let only the young come,
Says the sea.
Let them kiss my face
And hear me.
I am the last word
And I tell
Where storms and stars come from.
Scheme | XAXB XXXCB XADX EDXD FE CEXXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 11101 101011 10 011 0100101 1111 1101 1011010 0111 111101 0100111 1111010 1101 11111 01111 100111 110011 101 11111 011 11011 011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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