Analysis of Evening on Calais Beach

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



IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
   The holy time is quiet as a Nun
   Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea:
   Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
   And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder--everlastingly.
Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
   If thou appear untouch'd by solemn thought,
   Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
   And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
   God being with thee when we know it not.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110110101 0101110101 101010011 1101011 010011011001 1001010101 0111010101 011101 111111111 1101011101 110111101 110110101 011010101 1101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 102
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 451
Words per stanza (avg) 100
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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