Analysis of Your Awful Voice
Thomas Shadwell 1642 (Weeting or Lynford, Norfolk) – 1692 (London)
Your awful voice I hear and I obey,
Brother to Jove and monarch of the sea.
Come down, my blusterers, swell no more,
Your stormy rage give o'er.
To your prisons below,
Down you must go.
In hollow rocks your revels make,
Nor 'till I call your trembling dens forsake.
| Scheme | XXXX AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1101110101 101101101 1111111 1101110 111001 1111 01011101 11111100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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