Analysis of Wordsworth
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS MEMOIRS.
Dear friends, who read the world aright,
And in its common forms discern
A beauty and a harmony
The many never learn!
Kindred in soul of him who found
In simple flower and leaf and stone
The impulse of the sweetest lays
Our Saxon tongue has known,--
Accept this record of a life
As sweet and pure, as calm and good,
As a long day of blandest June
In green field and in wood.
How welcome to our ears, long pained
By strife of sect and party noise,
The brook-like murmur of his song
Of nature's simple joys!
The violet' by its mossy stone,
The primrose by the river's brim,
And chance-sown daffodil, have found
Immortal life through him.
The sunrise on his breezy lake,
The rosy tints his sunset brought,
World-seen, are gladdening all the vales
And mountain-peaks of thought.
Art builds on sand; the works of pride
And human passion change and fall;
But that which shares the life of God
With Him surviveth all.
Scheme | X ABXB ACXC XAXA ADXD CEAE XAXA AFAF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011111 1111011 00110101 01000100 010101 10011111 010100101 01010101 1010111 01101101 11011101 1011111 011001 110110111 11110101 01110111 110101 01001111 0110101 0111011 010111 0111101 0101111 1111101 010111 11110111 01010101 11110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 930 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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