Analysis of Woodstock Park
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Here in a little rustic hermitage
Alfred the Saxon King, Alfred the Great,
Postponed the cares of king-craft to translate
The Consolations of the Roman sage.
Here Geoffrey Chaucer in his ripe old age
Wrote the unrivalled Tales, which soon or late
The venturous hand that strives to imitate
Vanquished must fall on the unfinished page.
Two kings were they, who ruled by right divine,
And both supreme; one in the realm of Truth,
One in the realm of Fiction and of Song.
What prince hereditary of their line,
Uprising in the strength and flush of youth,
Their glory shall inherit and prolong?
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Metre | 1001010100 1001011001 0101111101 001010101 1101001111 10111111 01111110 1011100101 1101111101 0101100111 1001110011 110100111 0100010111 1101010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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