Analysis of Plus Ultra
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises
Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond:
Thought can see not thence the goal of hope's surmises
Far beyond.
Night and day have made an everlasting bond
Each with each to hide in yet more deep disguises
Truth, till souls of men that thirst for truth despond.
All that man in pride of spirit slights or prizes,
All the dreams that make him fearful, fain, or fond,
Fade at forethought's touch of life's unknown surprises
Far beyond.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010100110 101111110001 111110111010 101 1011110101 111110111010 1111111111 111011101110 10111110111 11111101010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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