Analysis of Upon The Same Event
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
WHEN, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn
The tidings past of servitude repealed,
And of that joy which shook the Isthmian Field,
The rough Aetolians smiled with bitter scorn.
''Tis known,' cried they, 'that he, who would adorn
His envied temples with the Isthmian crown,
Must either win, through effort of his own,
The prize, or be content to see it worn
By more deserving brows.--Yet so ye prop,
Sons of the brave who fought at Marathon,
Your feeble spirits! Greece her head hath bowed,
As if the wreath of liberty thereon
Would fix itself as smoothly as a cloud,
Which, at Jove's will, descends on Pelion's top.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 010111001 011111011 01111101 1111111101 110101011 1101110111 0111101111 1101011111 110111110 1101010111 1101110001 1101110101 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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