Analysis of Milford Sound In Winter
William Gay 1865 (Scotland) – 1897
Dark ocean walls, majestically steep,
That dare the skies, that guard a solitude
Of straitened sea from every tempest rude
That uncontrolled molests the outer deep!
White pinnacles, where Summer suns will reap
A silent store of clouds, unloose the flood
That captive long in Winter's hold hath stood,
And wake the mountain mosses from their sleep!
Dark walls! white peaks! unravished silences!
Grey sinuous lane of solitary sea!
Wild cataracts plunging fearless from the height!
And glaciers patient through the centuries!
O would that my revering soul might be
Among your lonely shrines an eremite!
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Metre | 1101010001 110111010 1111100101 101010101 11110111 010111101 1101010111 0101010111 11111100 110111001 1101010101 0101010100 1111010111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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