Analysis of Marie
In Several Keys
We hear the opening refrain,
Marie!
We thought so; here you are again,
Marie!
A simple tune, in simple thirds,
Beloved of after-dinner birds;
A legend, self-condemned as 'words,'
Marie!
She lingers by the flowing tide,
Marie;
A 'fisher-lad' is close beside
Marie;
He gazes in her 'eyes so blue';
Marie, Marie, my heart is true;
And then, - you do, you know you do,
Marie! -
But vain is every mortal wish,
Marie;
And 'fisher-lads' have got to fish,
Marie;
O blinding tears! O cheeks 'so' wet!
Marie, I come again! And yet
I shouldn't feel disposed to bet,
Marie!
A tempest drives across the wave,
Marie;
With triplets in the treble stave,
Marie;
The player pounds. With bulging eyes
Th' excited vocalist replies;
The maddened octaves drown his cries,
Marie!
The storm is past. We hear again,
Marie,
The simple thirds, the waltz refrain,
Marie;
We only see some drifting wrack,
An empty bunk, a battered smack,
Alas! Alas!! Alack!!! Alack!!!!
Marie!
O good old words, O 'tears that rise,'
Marie!
O good young fisher-lad that dies,
Marie!
We leave you on the lonely shore; -
You wave your hands for evermore,
A bleak, disgusted semaphore,
Marie!
Scheme | x aBcBdddB eBeBfffB gBgBhhhB iBiBjjjB cBaBkkkB jBjBllbB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 11010001 01 11111101 01 01010101 01110101 01010111 01 11010101 01 01011101 01 11000111 01011111 01111111 01 111100101 01 01011111 01 11011111 01110101 11010111 01 01010101 01 11000101 01 01011101 1101010001 0110111 01 01111101 01 01010101 01 11011101 11010101 010111 01 11111111 01 11110111 01 11110101 1111110 010101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,131 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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