Some monstrous torture-engine’s whole
Strength on it? No more says the soul.” (Browning describes the paralyzing effect of a wrong accusation on a highly sensitive mind.)
“Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapours.” (Shelley seeks to raise a resemblance between the closing night of an eventful year, and the dome of a sepulchre.)
“Stood aloof, the scars remaining,
Like Cliffs which had been rent asunder;
A dreary sea now flows between,
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,