Analysis of Marsh Song -- At Sunset.
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
Over the monstrous shambling sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest:
Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red West, --
Thy Prospero I'll be.
Over the humped and fishy sea,
Over the Caliban sea
O cloud in the West, like a thought in the heart
Of pardon, loose thy wing, and start,
And do a grace for me.
Over the huge and huddling sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bring hither my brother Antonio, -- Man, --
My injurer: night breaks the ban;
Brother, I pardon thee.
Scheme | aAbba aAbba aAcca |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011 10011 1100111 111100111 1111 10010101 10011 11001101001 11011101 010111 100101001 10011 11011001001 111101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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