Analysis of By The Sea
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
Sheer miracles of loveliness
Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed:
Anemones, salt, passionless,
Blow flower-like; just enough alive
To blow and multiply and thrive.
Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike,
Encrusted live things argus-eyed,
All fair alike, yet all unlike,
Are born without a pang, and die
Without a pang, and so pass by.
| Scheme | AXABB CXCDD EXEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1101110 111101111 110101001 11110101 0111011 110011 1101111 111 110110101 1101001 11111111 01011101 11011101 11010101 01010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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