Analysis of A Poet's Wife

Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1847 ( Barnes, London, ) – 1922 (London)



I saw a tract of ocean locked in-land
Within a field's embrace--
The very sea! Afar it fled the strand
And gave the seasons chase,
And met the night alone, the tempest spanned,
Saw sunrise face to face.

O Poet, more than ocean, lonelier!
In inaccessible rest
And storm remote, thou, sea of thoughts, dost stir,
Scattered through east to west,--
Now, while thou closest with the kiss of her
Who locks thee to her breast.


Scheme ABABAB CDCDCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110101 010101 0101011101 010101 0101010101 11111 11011101 001001 0101111111 101111 1111010110 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 411
Words 78
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 162
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. more…

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