Analysis of A Poet's Wife
Alice Meynell 1847 (London) – 1922
I saw a tract of ocean locked in-land
Within a field's embrace -
The very sea! Afar it fled the strand
And gave the seasons chase,
And met the night alone, the tempest spanned,
Saw sunrise face to face.
O Poet, more than ocean, lonelier!
In inaccessible rest
And storm remote, thou, sea of thoughts, dost stir,
Scattered through east to west, -
Now, while thou closest with the kiss of her
Who locks thee to her breast.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 010101 0101011101 010101 0101010101 11111 11011101 001001 0101111111 101111 1111010110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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