Analysis of From Those Eternal Regions

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



From those eternal regions bright,
Where suns, that never set in night,
Diffuse the golden day;
Where Spring, unfading, pours around,
O'er all the dew-impearled ground,
Her thousand colours gay;
O whether on the fountain's flowery side,
Whence living waters glide,
Or in the fragrant grove,
Whose shade embosoms peace and love,
New pleasures all our hours employ,
And ravish every sense with every joy!
Great heirs of empire! yet unborn,
Who shall this island late adorn;
A monarch's drooping thought to cheer,
Appear! appear! appear!


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Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 11110101 010101 111101 1010111 01011 1101011001 110101 100101 111101 1101101001 01100111001 111100111 11110101 0110111 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 527
Words 88
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 423
Words per stanza (avg) 86
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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