Analysis of Voyages IV
Harold Hart Crane 1899 (Garrettsville, Ohio) – 1932 (Gulf of Mexico)
Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose
I know as spectrum of the sea and pledge
Vastly now parting gulf on gulf of wings
Whose circles bridge, I know, (from palms to the severe
Chilled albatross's white immutability)
No stream of greater love advancing now
Than, singing, this mortality alone
Through clay aflow immortally to you.
All fragrance irrefragably, and claim
Madly meeting logically in this hour
And region that is ours to wreathe again,
Portending eyes and lips and making told
The chancel port and portion of our June-
Shall they not stem and close in our own steps
Bright staves of flowers and quills today as I
Must first be lost in fatal tides to tell?
In signature of the incarnate word
The harbor shoulders to resign in mingling
.Mutual blood, transpiring as foreknown
And widening noon within your breast for gathering
All bright insinuations that my years have caught
For islands where must lead inviolably
Blue latitudes and levels of your eyes,-
In this expectant, still exclaim receive
The secret oar and petals of all love.
Scheme | XXXXABXX XXXAX XXC ADBDACX XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011100101 1111010101 1011011111 110111111001 1111 1111010101 1101010001 111111 110101 10101000110 01011101101 0101010101 0110101101 11110101011 11110010111 1111010111 0100100101 010101010100 1001010011 0100101111100 11001011111 1101111 110010111 0101010101 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,062 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 3, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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