Analysis of To Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honourable Miss Ponsonby,

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



A stream to mingle with your favorite Dee
Along the Vale of Meditation flows;
So styled by those fierce Britons, pleased to see
In Nature's face the expression of repose,
Or, haply there some pious Hermit chose
To live and die -- the peace of Heaven his aim,
To whome the wild sequestered region owes
At this late day, its sanctifying name.
Glyn Cafaillgaroch, in the Cambrian tongue,
In ourse the Vale of Friendship, let this spot
Be nam'd, where faithful to a low roof'd Cot
On Deva's banks, ye have abode so long,
Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb
Ev'n on this earth, above the reach of time.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01110111001 010110101 1111110111 01010010101 111110101 11010111011 1101010101 1111111 11001001 0101110111 1111010111 111110111 1001010111 11111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 597
Words 113
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 469
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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