Analysis of Harbor Morning



The morning air stirred off the hillside's brow
Then breezes turned around and skies changed too;
Where there was azure blue is pale gray now
And heavy with the scent of sea anew.
Now there's the foghorn's distant lazy groan
Which seems to echo, "change" and "change" and "change"
Alike a sleeper's dreaming, breathing tone
That rolls across the foggy harbor's range.
Besides the weather, turning is the tide
so shrimpboats swing about to tug and pull
Against their mooring ropes and gulls, no pride,
Soar seeking refuse by the bucketful.
 The bell buoys toll aloud the last farewells
 To seamen setting course cross ocean swells.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 010111011 1101010111 1111011111 0101011101 110110101 1111010101 010110101 1101010101 0101010101 111011101 0111010111 11001101 0110101011 1101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 617
Words 106
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 502
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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