Analysis of The Reverie of Poor Susan
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,
Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years:
Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard
In the silence of morning the song of the Bird.
Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees
A mountain ascending, a vision of trees;
Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide,
And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale,
Down which she so often has tripped with her pail;
And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's,
The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.
She looks, and her heart is in heaven: but they fade,
The mist and the river, the hill and the shade:
The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise,
And the colours have all passed away from her eyes!
Scheme | AABB CCXB DDAX EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101111101 101111111111 11011101011 001011001101 101101011011 01001001011 11011111 00101110111 11011001101 11111011101 001011001101 01101011111 110011010111 01001001001 01111001111 00111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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