Analysis of The Moon and Sea

George Darley 1795 (Dublin) – 1846 (London)



Whilst the moon decks herself in Neptune's glass
And ponders over her image in the sea,
Her cloudy locks smoothing from off her face
That she may all as bright as beauty be;
It is my wont to sit upon the shore
And mark with what an even grace she glides
Her two concurrent paths of azure o'er,
One in the heavens, the other in the tides:
Now with a transient veil her face she hides
And ocean blackens with a human frown;
Now her fine screen of vapour she divides
And looks with all her light of beauty down;
Her splendid smile over-silvering the main
Spreads her the glass she looks into again.


Scheme ABCBDEFEEGEGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 101101011 01010010001 0101101101 1111111101 1111110101 0111110111 01010111010 10010010001 1101010111 0101010101 101111101 0111011101 010110101 1001110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 603
Words 116
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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