Analysis of Antistrophe

William Taylor Collins 1721 (Sussex) – 1759 (Sussex)



Thou who such weary Length hast past,
Where wilt thou rest, mad Nymph, at last?
Say, wilt thou shroud in haunted Cell,
Where gloomy Rape and Murder dwell?
Or in some hollow'd Seat,
'Gainst which the big Waves beat,
Hear drowning Sea-men's Cries in Tempests brought!
Dark Pow'r, with shudd'ring meek submitted Thought
Be mine, to read the Visions old,
Which thy awak'ning Bards have told:
And lest thou meet my blasted View,
Hold each strange Tale devoutly true;
Ne'er be I found, by Thee o'eraw'd,
In that thrice-hallow'd Eve abroad,
When Ghosts, as Cottage-Maids believe,
Their pebbled Beds permitted leave,
And Gobblins haunt from Fire, or Fen,
Or Mine, or Flood, the Walks of Men!
    O Thou whose Spirit most possest
The sacred Seat of Shakespear's Breast!
By all that from thy Prophet broke,
In thy Divine Emotions spoke:
Hither again thy Fury deal,
Teach me but once like Him to feel:
His Cypress Wreath my Meed decree,
And I, O Fear, will dwell with Thee!


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFAGHHIIAJKKLLMM
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 11111111 11110101 11010101 101101 110111 110111011 1111110101 11110101 111111 01111101 11110101 1111111 01110101 11110101 1110101 01111011 11110111 1111011 0101111 11111101 01010101 10011101 11111111 11011101 01111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 970
Words 169
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 742
Words per stanza (avg) 167
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Taylor Collins

William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. more…

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