Analysis of Seraphita



Come not before me now, O visionary face!
Me tempest-tost, and borne along life's passionate sea;
Troublous and dark and stormy though my passage be;
Not here and now may we commingle or embrace,
Lest the loud anguish of the waters should efface
The bright illumination of thy memory,
Which dominates the night; rest, far away from me,
In the serenity of thine abiding place!

But when the storm is highest, and the thunders blare,
And sea and sky are riven, O moon of all my night!
Stoop down but once in pity of my great despair,
And let thine hand, though over late to help, alight
But once upon my pale eyes and my drowning hair,
Before the great waves conquer in the last vain fight.


Scheme ABBAABBA CDCDCD
Poetic Form Petrarchan sonnet  (79%)
Metre 11011111001 1101010111001 10101011101 110111010101 101101010101 01001011100 11001110111 000100110101 110111000101 0101110111111 111101011101 011111011101 110111101101 010111000111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 682
Words 129
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 270
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ernest Christopher Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson was born in 1867 at Lea in Kent England he was an English poet novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement Most of his life was spent in France more…

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