Analysis of Insularum Ocelle
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover,
Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark
As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover,
Sark.
We mourn, for love of a song that outsang the lark,
That nought so lovely beholden of Sirmio's lover
Made glad in Propontis the flight of his Pontic bark.
Here earth lies lordly, triumphal as heaven is above her,
And splendid and strange as the sea that upbears as an ark,
As a sign for the rapture of storm-spent eyes to discover,
Sark.
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel (93%) |
| Metre | 11011001101110 11010100101 1011011101110 1 11111011101 111100101110 1101011111 11110101101010 0100110111111 101101011111010 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 532 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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