Analysis of A Night-Piece
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
------The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground--from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while he treads
His lonesome path, with unobserving eye
Bent earthwards; he looks up--the clouds are split
Asunder,--and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
There, in a black-blue vault she sails along,
Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small
And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss
Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away,
Yet vanish not!--the wind is in the tree,
But they are silent;--still they roll along
Immeasurably distant; and the vault,
Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds,
Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into peaceful calm,
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRNSTUVWXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 10010011101 100111101 1111111 0110010101 110111011 1011111110 1101001001 10010100111 1101111 111110111 0100011111 01100101010 1001111101 101101111 0101010101 1111111101 1101011001 1111011101 010010001 1111110101 1101010001 1101010001 101100111 1101001101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,125 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 879 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 184 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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