Analysis of The Kraken
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant fins the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by men and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
Scheme | ABABCDDCAEFAAEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101010101 1101000101 110111 0111011 01110010111 11010100101 0101010101 11001010101 100101 1110101001 1111110011 1000111011 01010101101 1111010111 010111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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