Analysis of Caught In The Ebbing Tide: A Reminiscence Of Raxtox Cliffs
Theodore Watts-Dunton 1832 (United Kingdom) – 1914 (London Borough of Wandsworth)
The mightiest Titan's stroke could not withstand
An ebbing tide like this. These swirls denote
How wind and tide conspire. I can but float
To the open sea and strike no more for land.
Farewell, brown cliffs, farewell, beloved sand
Her feet have pressed--farewell, dear little boat
Where Gelert, calmly sitting on my coat,
Unconscious of my peril, gazes bland!
All dangers grip me save the deadliest, fear:
Yet these air-pictures of the past that glide--
These death-mirages o'er the heaving tide--
Showing two lovers in an alcove clear,
Will break my heart. I see them and I hear
As there they sit at morning, side by side.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100111101 1101111101 11010101111 10101011111 1111011 011111101 111010111 101110101 11011101001 1111010111 11010100101 101100111 1111111011 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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