Analysis of At Sea
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
Three are emerald pools in the sea,
And wing-like flashes of light;
The sea is bound with the heavens
In a large delight.
Night comes out of the east
And rushes down on the sun;
The emerald pools and the light pools
Are darkened and done.
Our boat dips and cleaves onward,
Careless of night or of light,
Following the line of her compass
By her engines' might.
Through the desert of air and of water;
Like the lonely soul of man,
Following her fate to the ending,
Unaware of the hidden plan.
Sure only of battle and longing,
Of the pain and the quest,
And beyond in the darkness somewhere
Sure of her rest.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XAXA XCDC DEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101001 0111011 01111010 00101 111101 0101101 01010011 11001 10110110 1011111 100011010 10101 1010110110 1010111 100011010 0110101 110110010 101001 00100101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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