Analysis of Prelude - Tristan And Isolde
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Fate, out of the deep sea's gloom,
When a man's heart's pride grows great,
And nought seems now to foredoom
Fate,
Fate, laden with fears in wait,
Draws close through the clouds that loom,
Till the soul see, all too late,
More dark than a dead world's tomb,
More high than the sheer dawn's gate,
More deep than the wide sea's womb,
Fate.
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel (93%) |
| Metre | 1110111 1011111 011111 1 1101101 1110111 1011111 1110111 1110111 1110111 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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