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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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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