Analysis of Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
HERE pause: the poet claims at least this praise,
That virtuous Liberty hath been the scope
Of his pure song, which did not shrink from hope
In the worst moment of these evil days;
From hope, the paramount 'duty' that Heaven lays,
For its own honour, on man's suffering heart.
Never may from our souls one truth depart--
That an accursed thing it is to gaze
On prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye;
Nor--touched with due abhorrence of 'their' guilt
For whose dire ends tears flow, and blood is spilt,
And justice labours in extremity--
Forget thy weakness, upon which is built,
O wretched man, the throne of tyranny!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 11001001101 1111111111 0011011101 11010101101 1111111001 10111011101 11111111 11001010101 1111010111 1111110111 010100100 0111001111 1101011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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