Analysis of Most Sweet it is

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



.  Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
   To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
   While a fair region round the traveller lies
   Which he forbears again to look upon;
   Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,
   The work of Fancy, or some happy tone
   Of meditation, slipping in between
   The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
   If Thought and Love desert us, from that day
  Let us break off all commerce with the Muse:
  With Thought and Love companions of our way,
  Whate'er the senses take or may refuse,
  The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews
  Of inspiration on the humblest lay.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1101111111 10110101001 111011101 110111011 0111011101 101010001 0101000101 1101101111 1111110101 11010101101 1001011101 01010101101 1010101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 612
Words 108
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 460
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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