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LINE 11 Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! Line 11 emphasizes the point made in lines 9 and 10 with repetitive language. Similar to lines 2 and 3 in the octave, it credits the view of the city with a redeeming, soul-soothing quality. Line 11 is also noteworthy for being the first line to use a fifirst-person pronoun (“I”). Though the preceding lines sound like they come from a first-person speaker, line 11 confirms it. The line uses anaphora to reiterate the claim of lines 9 and 10. “Ne’er saw I, never felt,” says the speaker (“Ne’er,” by the way, is pronounced as one syllable). Anaphora helps underline the speaker’s earnestness, but plays another role too. In line 11, each use of “never” is attached to a different verb—the first to “saw,” the second to “felt.” Both verbs act upon (or rather don’t act upon, since what’s being described has “never” happened) the “calm so deep.” The anaphora of “never,” therefore, defines two different types of calm. The first is visual, a calm spread over the slumbering city, deep in that it extends to the limits of his or her vision. The second is internal, spreading deep into the speaker’s soul. Given that unprecedented calm, it comes as a bit of a surprise to see an exclamation mark, which indicates excitement, end the sentence (and end-stop the line). This is another contradiction. How can that which is so deeply calm be so excited? Given how quickly the light is changing, it may be the case that the moment of calm, like the “fair” dawn and the “smokeless air” before it, has already passed.