Analysis of A Wanderer's Song
John Masefield 1878 (Ledbury) – 1967 (Abingdon)
A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,
I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;
I hunger for the sea's edge, the limit of the land,
Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand.
Oh I'll be going, leaving the noises of the street,
To where a lifting foresail-foot is yanking at the sheet;
To a windy, tossing anchorage where yawls and ketches ride,
Oh I'l be going, going, until I meet the tide.
And first I'll hear the sea-wind, the mewing of the gulls,
The clucking, sucking of the sea about the rusty hulls,
The songs at the capstan at the hooker warping out,
And then the heart of me'll know I'm there or thereabout.
Oh I am sick of brick and stone, the heart of me is sick,
For windy green, unquiet sea, the realm of Moby Dick;
And I'll be going, going, from the roaring of the wheels,
For a wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEXB FFAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0100111010011 111011010100101 1101011010101 1011010110101 1111010010101 1101011110101 10101010011011 11111010011101 011101101101 01010101010101 0110101010101 01011111111 11111101011111 110111011101 01110101010101 10100111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 28, 2023
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