Analysis of Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
HAIL Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!
Not dull art Thou as undiscerning Night;
But studious only to remove from sight
Day's mutable distinctions.--Ancient Power!
Thus did the waters gleam, the mountains lower,
To the rude Briton, when, in wolf-skin vest
Here roving wild, he laid him down to rest
On the bare rock, or through a leafy bower
Looked ere his eyes were closed. By him was seen
The self-same Vision which we now behold;
At thy meek bidding, shadowy Power! brought forth
These mighty barriers, and the gulf between;
The flood, the stars,--a spectacle as old
As the beginning of the heavens and earth!
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Metre | 1110111010 1111111 11001010111 11000101010 11010101010 1011010111 1101111111 10111101010 1111011111 0111011101 111101001011 11010000101 0101010011 10010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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