Analysis of In the St. Gotthardt Pass
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
The storm which shook the silence of the hills
And sleeping pinnacles of ancient snow
Went muttering off in one last thunder throe
Mixed with a moan of multitudinous rills;
Yea, even as one who has wept much, but stills
The flowing tears of some convulsive woe
When a fair light of hope begins to glow
Athwart the gloom of long remembered ills:
So does the face of this scarred mountain height
Relax its stony frown, while slow uprolled
Invidious mists are changed to veiling gold.
Wild peaks still fluctuate between dark and bright,
But when the sun laughs at them, as of old,
They kiss high heaven in all embracing light.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010101 01011101 11001011101 1101111 11011111111 0101110101 1011110111 0101110101 1101111101 011101111 01001111101 1111001101 1101111111 11110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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