Analysis of Columbus' Last Voyage.

Charles Hamilton Musgrove 1871 (Kentucky) – 1926



(Written on the exhumation and reburial in Spain of the bones of Christopher Columbus.)

Once more upon the ocean's heaving breast
He lays his head, not like the lover bold
Who in the brave, chivalric days of old
Wooed from her lips the secret of the West,
But like a tired man going to his rest,
No hopes to thrill, no yearnings to inspire,
No tasks to burden, and no toil to tire,
No morn to waken to a day of quest.
Again upon the trackless deep,--again
About him as of yore the wild winds play;
Behind him lies the world he gave to men,
Before a grave in old Castile for aye:
Peace, winds and tides! Be calm, thou guardian sky,--
The lordliest dust of earth is passing by!


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 101001001011011100010 1101010101 1111110101 10011111 1101010101 11010110111 1111110101 11110011110 1111010111 010101101 0111110111 0111011111 010101111 11011111001 011111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 667
Words 135
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 14
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 260
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Hamilton Musgrove

Musgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Gertrude (Hamilton) and Henry C. Musgrove. He died in Louisville, and is buried in that city's Cave Hill Cemetery. more…

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