Analysis of The Sea Hath Its Pearls. (From The German Of Heinrich Heine)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The sea hath its pearls,
The heaven hath its stars;
But my heart, my heart,
My heart hath its love.
Great are the sea and the heaven;
Yet greater is my heart,
And fairer than pearls and stars
Flashes and beams my love.
Thou little, youthful maiden,
Come unto my great heart;
My heart, and the sea, and the heaven
Are melting away with love!
| Scheme | XABC DBAC DBDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 010111 11111 11111 11010010 110111 0101101 100111 1101010 110111 110010010 1100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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