Analysis of I Grieved For Buonaparte

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



I GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain
And an unthinking grief! The tenderest mood
Of that Man's mind--what can it be? what food
Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could 'he' gain?
'Tis not in battles that from youth we train
The Governor who must be wise and good,
And temper with the sternness of the brain
Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
Wisdom doth live with children round her knees:
Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk
Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk
Of the mind's business: these are the degrees
By which true Sway doth mount; this is the stalk
True Power doth grow on; and her rights are these.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 010101011 1111111111 1111110111 1101011111 0100111101 0101010101 110001110 1011110101 1100110001 11111100101 1011011001 1111111101 11011100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 633
Words 117
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 499
Words per stanza (avg) 115
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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