Analysis of The Sea Limits
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Consider the sea's listless chime;
Time's self it is, made audible -
The murmur of the earth's own shell.
Secret continuance sublime
Is the sea's end: our sight may pass
No furlong further. Since time was,
This sound hath told the lapse of time.
No quiet, which is death's -it hath
The mournfulness of ancient life,
Enduring always at dull strife.
As the world's heart of rest and wrath,
Its painful pulse is in the sands.
Last utterly, the whole sky stands
Grey and not known, along its path.
Scheme | AXXAXXA BCCBDDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001101 11111100 01010111 10010001 101110111 1110111 11110111 11011111 011101 0101111 10111101 11011001 11000111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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