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Dover Beach
BY MATTHEW ARNOLD
The sea is calm tonight.
A6
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
B8
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
A 10
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England
stand,
C 10
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
D 11
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! B
10
Only, from the long line of spray
D8
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched
land,
C8
Listen! you hear the grating roar
E8
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and
fling,
F 10
At their return, up the high strand,
C8
Begin, and cease, and then again begin, G 10
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
F9
The eternal note of sadness in.
G9
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the gean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
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J
Consonance?
Potential personification
Q
R
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Q
A
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Love?
A
A
Observations:
This poem has an odd rhyme scheme,
because it switches back and forth
between rhyming and not almost
every stanza. An example of this is in
the third stanza, where you have two
rhymes broken up across the stanza
by many other lines that dont rhyme.
Narrator seems almost uncaring to
me, like theyve given up on
something.
Poem contains a lot of imagery.