Analysis of Ibant Obscuræ
Thomas Edward Brown 1830 – 1897
To-night I saw three maidens on the beach,
Dark-robed descending to the sea,
So slow, so silent of all speech,
And visible to me
Only by that strange drift-light, dim, forlorn,
Of the sun's wreck and clashing surges born.
Each after other went,
And they were gathered to his breast--
It seemed to me a sacrament
Of some stern creed unblest:
As when to rocks, that cheerless girt the bay,
They bound thy holy limbs, Andromeda.
Scheme | ABABCC DXXDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 11010101 11110111 010011 1011111101 1011010101 110101 01010111 11110100 11111 111111101 1111010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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