Analysis of The Storm
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
I SEE the use : and know my blood
Is not a sea,
But a shallow, bounded flood,
Though red as he ;
Yet have I flows, as strong as his,
And boiling streams that rave
With the same curling force, and hiss,
As doth the mountain'd wave.
2.
But when his waters billow thus,
Dark storms, and wind
Incite them to that fierce discuss,
Else not inclin'd,
Thus the enlarg'd, enragèd air
Uncalms these to a flood ;
But still the weather that's most fair
Breeds tempests in my blood.
3.
Lord, then round me with weeping clouds,
And let my mind
In quick blasts sigh beneath those shrouds,
A spirit-wind ;
So shall that storm purge this recluse
Which sinful ease made foul,
And wind and water to Thy use
Both wash and wing my soul.
Scheme | ABABXCXCD EFEFGAGAD HFHFIXIX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1101 1010101 1111 11111111 010111 10110101 11011 1 11110101 1101 01111101 1101 1001111 11101 11010111 11011 1 11111101 0111 01110111 0101 11111101 110111 01010111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 8 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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