Analysis of A Friend's Wish. To C. W. S.
Bliss Carman (William) 1861 – 1929
Give me your last Aloha,
When I go out of sight,
Over the dark rim of the sea
Into the Polar night!
And all the Northland give you
Skoal for the voyage begun,
When your bright summer sail goes down
Into the zones of sun!
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111010 111111 10011101 010101 010111 1101001 11110111 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 216 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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