Analysis of Fly Away, Fly Away Over The Sea
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Fly away, fly away over the sea,
Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done;
Come again, come again, come back to me,
Bringing the summer and bringing the sun.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011011001 1101011011 1011011111 1001001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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