Analysis of And Is It Among Rude Untutored Dales

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



AND is it among rude untutored Dales,
There, and there only, that the heart is true?
And, rising to repel or to subdue,
Is it by rocks and woods that man prevails?
Ah no! though Nature's dread protection fails,
There is a bulwark in the soul. This knew
Iberian Burghers when the sword they drew
In Zaragoza, naked to the gales
Of fiercely-breathing war. The truth was felt
By Palafox, and many a brave compeer,
Like him of noble birth and noble mind;
By ladies, meek-eyed women without fear;
And wanderers of the street, to whom is dealt
The bread which without industry they find.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 577
Words 107
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 455
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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