Analysis of Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
YES, it was the mountain Echo,
Solitary, clear, profound,
Answering to the shouting Cuckoo,
Giving to her sound for sound!
Unsolicited reply
To a babbling wanderer sent;
Like her ordinary cry,
Like--but oh, how different!
Hears not also mortal Life?
Hear not we, unthinking Creatures!
Slaves of folly, love, or strife--
Voices of two different natures?
Have not 'we' too?--yes, we have
Answers, and we know not whence;
Echoes from beyond the grave,
Recognised intelligence!
Such rebounds our inward ear
Catches sometimes from afar--
Listen, ponder, hold them dear;
For of God,--of God they are.
| Scheme | XAXA BXBX CDCD XXXX XEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 11101010 100101 10010101 1010111 010001 101001001 101001 1111100 1110101 11101010 1110111 101110010 1111111 1001111 1010101 10100 1110101 1001101 1010111 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 584 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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