Analysis of In Sark
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder
With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds whence terror is
shed
As a shadow of death from the wings of the darkness on waters that
thunder
Abreast and ahead.
At its edge is a sepulchre hollowed and hewn for a lone man's bed,
Propped open with rock and agape on the sky and the sea thereunder,
But roofed and walled in well from the wrath of them slept its dead.
Here might not a man drink rapture of rest, or delight above wonder,
Beholding, a soul disembodied, the days and the nights that fled,
With splendour and sound of the tempest around and above him and
under,
Abreast and ahead?
Scheme | axbxaB bab abxaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110110111010 11110110111101 1 1011110110101101 10 01001 111101100110111 110110011010011 11010110111111 11101110111010110 0100100100100111 110110100100110 10 01001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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