Analysis of The Sound of the Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine of foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111111 010110101 1101110101 110100101 0111010101 01100010 11010010101 1111010101 1111111001 001001110 0101011101 0010111101 1101101000010 11011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 451 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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