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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