Analysis of The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature's Hand
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand,
And, haply, there the spirits of the blest
Dwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest;
Huge Ocean shows, within his yellow strand,
A habitation marvellously planned,
For life to occupy in love and rest;
All that we see--is dome, or vault, or nest,
Or fortress, reared at Nature's sage command.
Glad thought for every season! but the Spring
Gave it while cares were weighing on my heart,
'Mid song of birds, and insects murmuring;
And while the youthful year's prolific art--
Of bud, leaf, blade, and flower--was fashioning
Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011101 011010101 11010010101 1101011101 001011 111100101 1111111111 1101110101 11110010101 1111010111 111101100 0101010101 11110101100 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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