Analysis of Even As A Dragon’s Eye That Feels The Stress
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
EVEN as a dragon's eye that feels the stress
Of a bedimming sleep, or as a lamp
Suddenly glaring through sepulchral damp,
So burns yon Taper 'mid a black recess
Of mountains, silent, dreary, motionless:
The lake below reflects it not; the sky,
Muffled in clouds, affords no company
To mitigate and cheer its loneliness.
Yet, round the body of that joyless Thing
Which sends so far its melancholy light,
Perhaps are seated in domestic ring
A gay society with faces bright,
Conversing, reading, laughing;--or they sing,
While hearts and voices in the song unite.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011101 10111101 10010111 1111010101 1101010100 0101011101 1001011100 110011100 110101111 111111001 0111000101 0101001101 0101010111 110100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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