Analysis of A South-Sea Islander.
Aloll in the warm clear water,
On her back with languorous limbs,
She lies. The baby upon her breasts
Paddles and falls and swims.
With half-closed eyes she smiles,
Guarding it with her hands;
And the sob swells up in my heart -
In my heart that understands.
Dear, in the English country,
The hatefullest land on earth,
The mothers are starved and the children die,
And death is better than birth!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1001110 101111 110100101 100101 111111 101101 00111011 011101 1001010 01111 0101100101 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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