reeleth

The third stanza, describing the decline of the sun, introduces an unusual number of pauses or caesuras calculated to slow down the lines: 'from highmost pitch, with weary car,/Like feeble age, he reeleth ...'

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Behold him, then, in this formidable situation: try thy power against his: silence 'the noise of the multitude of waters:' fasten the vessel that 'reeleth like a drunken man;' smooth the foaming waves that 'mount thee up to heaven;' fill up the horrible gulfs whither thou goest 'down to the bottoms of the mountains;' dissipate the lightning that flasheth in thy face; hush the bellowing thunders; confine the winds in their caverns; assuage the anguish of thy soul, and prevent its melting and exhaling with fear.

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818