Analysis of Art And Nature
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS.
Frown ever opposite, the angel cried,
Who, with an earthquake's might and giant hand,
Severed these riven rocks, and bade them stand
Severed for ever! The vast ocean-tide,
Leaving its roar without at his command,
Shrank, and beneath the woods through the green land
Went gently murmuring on, so to deride
The frowning barriers that its force defied!
But Art, high o'er the trailing smoke below
Of sea-bound steamer, on yon summit's head
Sat musing; and where scarce a wandering crow
Sailed o'er the chasm, in thought a highway led;
Conquering, as by an arrow from a bow,
The scene's lone Genius by her elfin-thread.
Scheme | X ABBABBAACDCDXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010110011 1101000101 111110101 1011010111 1011001101 1011011101 1001011011 11010011101 01010011101 11110010101 1111011101 11001101001 11001001011 10011110101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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