Analysis of Sonnet XXII: Wild Is the Foaming Sea
Mary Darby Robinson 1757 (England) – 1800 (England)
Wild is the foaming Sea! The surges roar!
And nimbly dart the livid lightnings round!
On the rent rock the angry waves rebound;
Ah me! the less'ning bark is seen no more!
Along the margin of the trembling shore,
Loud as the blast my frantic cries shall sound,
My storm-drench'd limbs the flinty fragments wound,
And o'er my bleeding breast the billows pour!
Phaon! return! ye winds, O! waft the strain
To his swift bark; ye barb'rous waves forbear!
Taunt not the anguish of a lover's brain,
Nor feebly emulate the soul's despair!
For howling winds, and foaming seas, in vain
Assail the breast, when passion rages there!
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Metre | 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101111111 01010101001 1101110111 1111010101 01011010101 101111101 11111111 1101010101 110100101 1101010101 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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