Analysis of Storm-Waves And Fog On Dorr’s Point,
Silas Weir Mitchell 1829 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – 1914 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
THE fog's gray curtain round me draws,
And leaves no world to me
Save this swift drama of the stirred
And restless sea.
Forth of the shrouding fog they roll,
As from a viewless world,
Leap spectral white, and, pausing, break,
In thunder hurled.
Ever they climb and cling anew,
Slide from the smooth rock wall,
With thin white fingers grip the weeds
And seaward crawl.
In rhythmic rote o'er shivering sands
They glide adown the shore
With murmurous whispering of 'Hush!'
And then no more.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110111 011111 11110101 0101 11010111 11011 1110101 0101 10110101 110111 11110101 0101 0101101001 11101 1110011 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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