Analysis of Song On The Water.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803 (Clifton, Bristol) – 1849 (Basel)
As mad sexton's bell, tolling
For earth's loveliest daughter
Night's dumbness breaks rolling
Ghostily:
So our boat breaks the water
Witchingly.
As her look the dream troubles
Of her tearful-eyed lover,
So our sails in the bubbles
Ghostily
Are mirrored, and hover
Moonily.
| Scheme | abaCbc dbdCbc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 11110 11110 1 11011010 1 1010110 1010110 11010010 1 110010 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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