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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Poetic Form
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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