Analysis of A Son Of The Sea
Bliss Carman (William) 1861 – 1929
I was born for deep-sea faring;
I was bred to put to sea;
Stories of my father's daring
Filled me at my mother's knee.
I was sired among the surges;
I was cubbed beside the foam;
All my heart is in its verges,
And the sea wind is my home.
All my boyhood, from far vernal
Bourns of being, came to me
Dream-like, plangent, and eternal
Memories of the plunging sea.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB CACA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111110 1111111 10111010 1111101 11101010 1110101 11110110 0011111 1111110 1110111 1110010 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 357 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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