Analysis of Full Fathom Five
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them,--ding-dong, bell.
Scheme | ABABCCDED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1111101 1111011 1011111 1110011 0110101 1110111 11 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 285 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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