Analysis of Ashore
Violet Nicolson 1865 (Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire) – 1904 (Madras, Madras Province)
Out I came from the dancing-place:
The night-wind met me face to face -
A wind off the harbour, cold and keen,
"I know," it whistled, "where thou hast been."
A faint voice fell from the stars above -
"Thou? whom we lighted to shrines of Love!"
I found when I reached my lonely room
A faint sweet scent in the unlit gloom.
And this was the worst of all to bear,
For someone had left while lilac there.
The flower you loved, in times that were.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 01111111 011010101 111101111 011110101 111101111 111111101 01110011 011011111 1111111 010110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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