Analysis of Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
JONES! as from Calais southward you and I
Went pacing side by side, this public Way
Streamed with the pomp of a too-credulous day,
When faith was pledged to new-born Liberty:
A homeless sound of joy was in the sky:
From hour to hour the antiquated Earth
Beat like the heart of Man: songs, garlands, mirth,
Banners, and happy faces, far and nigh!
And now, sole register that these things were,
Two solitary greetings have I heard,
'Good-morrow, Citizen!' a hollow word,
As if a dead man spake it! Yet despair
Touches me not, though pensive as a bird
Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110101 1101111101 11011011001 1111111100 0101111001 11011001001 110111111 1001010101 0111001110 110010111 1101000101 1101111101 1011110101 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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