Analysis of Taste
Mark Akenside 1721 (Newcastle upon Tyne) – 1770
What, then, is taste but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feeling alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or disarranged and gross
In species. This nor gems nor stores of gold,
Nor purple state nor culture can bestow;
But God alone, when first His active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101010 100101001 1111000101 1100011101 11011101 0101111111 1101110101 1101111101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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