Analysis of Inscriptions For A Seat In The Groves Of Coleorton
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
BENEATH yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound,
Rugged and high, of Charnwood's forest ground
Stand yet, but, Stranger! hidden from thy view,
The ivied Ruins of forlorn GRACE DIEU;
Erst a religious House, which day and night
With hymns resounded, and the chanted rite:
And when those rites had ceased, the Spot gave birth
To honourable Men of various worth:
There, on the margin of a streamlet wild,
Did Francis Beaumont sport, an eager child;
There, under shadow of the neighbouring rocks,
Sang youthful tales of shepherds and their flocks;
Unconscious prelude to heroic themes,
Heart-breaking tears, and melancholy dreams
Of slighted love, and scorn, and jealous rage,
With which his genius shook the buskined stage.
Communities are lost, and Empires die,
And things of holy use unhallowed lie;
They perish;--but the Intellect can raise,
From airy words alone, a Pile that ne'er decays.
Scheme | AABACCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111010101 100111101 1111010111 011010111 1001011101 11100101 0111110111 11111001 110101011 1101011101 11011011 1101110011 10110101 110101001 1101010101 111101011 01001101001 01110111 110101011 110101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 875 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 704 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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