Analysis of A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
'MISERRIMUS,' and neither name nor date,
Prayer, text, or symbol, graven upon the stone;
Nought but that word assigned to the unknown,
That solitary word--to separate
From all, and cast a cloud around the fate
Of him who lies beneath. Most wretched one,
'Who' chose his epitaph?--Himself alone
Could thus have dared the grave to agitate,
And claim, among the dead, this awful crown;
Nor doubt that He marked also for his own
Close to these cloistral steps a burial-place,
That every foot might fall with heavier tread,
Trampling upon his vileness. Stranger, pass
Softly!--To save the contrite, Jesus bled.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 11110100101 1111011001 11001110 1101010101 1111011101 111100101 111101110 0101011101 1111110111 1111101001 110011111001 100111101 1011001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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