Analysis of Against Oblivion
Henry John Newbolt, Sir 1862 – 1938
Cities drowned in olden time
Keep, they say, a magic chime
Rolling up from far below
When the moon-led waters flow.
So within me, ocean deep,
Lies a sunken world asleep.
Lest its bells forget to ring,
Memory! set the tide a-swing!
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010101 1110101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1110111 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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