Analysis of The French And the Spanish Guerillas
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
HUNGER, and sultry heat, and nipping blast
From bleak hill-top, and length of march by night
Through heavy swamp, or over snow-clad height--
These hardships ill-sustained, these dangers past,
The roving Spanish Bands are reached at last,
Charged, and dispersed like foam: but as a flight
Of scattered quails by signs do reunite,
So these,--and, heard of once again, are chased
With combinations of long-practised art
And newly-kindled hope; but they are fled--
Gone are they, viewless as the buried dead:
Where now?--Their sword is at the Foeman's heart;
And thus from year to year his walk they thwart,
And hang like dreams around his guilty bed.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010101 1111011111 1101110111 1101011101 0101011111 1001111101 110111101 1101110111 10101111 0101011111 111110101 111111011 0111111111 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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