Analysis of A Sea Song.
Jean Ingelow 1820 (Boston) – 1897
Old Albion sat on a crag of late.
And sang out - "Ahoy! ahoy!
Long, life to the captain, good luck to the mate.
And this to my sailor boy!
Come over, come home,
Through the salt sea foam,
My sailor, my sailor boy.
"Here's a crown to be given away, I ween,
A crown for my sailor's head,
And all for the worth of a widowed queen,
And the love of the noble dead;
And the fear and fame
Of the island's name
Where my boy was born and bred.
"Content thee, content thee, let it alone,
Thou marked for a choice so rare;
Though treaties be treaties, never a throne
Was proffered for cause as fair.
Yet come to me home,
Through the salt sea foam,
For the Greek must ask elsewhere.
"'Tis a pity, my sailor, but who can tell?
Many lands they look to me;
One of these might be wanting a Prince as well,
But that's as hereafter may be."
She raised her white head
And laughed; and she said
"That's as hereafter may be."
Scheme | ababcCb dedeffe dgdgcCg hihieei |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100110111 0110101 11101011101 0111101 11011 10111 1101101 10111100111 0111101 0110110101 00110101 00101 10101 1111101 1011011101 1110111 1101101001 1101111 11111 10111 101111 10101101111 1011111 11111100111 11101011 11011 01011 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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