Analysis of Ah! Where Is Palafox? Nor Tongue Nor Pen
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
AH! where is Palafox? Nor tongue no pen
Reports of him, his dwelling or his grave!
Does yet the unheard-of vessel ride the wave?
Or is she swallowed up, remote from ken
Of pitying human nature? Once again
Methinks that we shall hail thee, Champion brave,
Redeemed to baffle that imperial Slave,
And through all Europe cheer desponding men
With new-born hope. Unbounded is the might
Of martyrdom, and fortitude, and right.
Hark, how thy Country triumphs!-Smilingly
The Eternal looks upon her sword that gleams,
Like his own lightning, over mountains high,
On rampart, and the banks of all her streams.
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Metre | 111101111 0111110111 11001110101 1111010111 11001010101 1111111001 01110101001 01110111 1111010101 110001001 1111010100 00101010111 1111010101 110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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