Analysis of Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
YET, yet, Biscayans! we must meet our Foes
With firmer soul, yet labour to regain
Our ancient freedom; else 'twere worse than vain
To gather round the bier these festal shows.
A garland fashioned of the pure white rose
Becomes not one whose father is a slave:
Oh, bear the infant covered to his grave!
These venerable mountains now enclose
A people sunk in apathy and fear.
If this endure, farewell, for us, all good!
The awful light of heavenly innocence
Will fail to illuminate the infant's bier;
And guilt and shame, from which is no defence,
Descend on all that issues from our blood.
Scheme | ABBAACCADEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 110111101 10101011111 110101111 0101010111 0111110101 1101010111 1100010101 0101010001 110111111 01011100100 11101000101 0101111101 01111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
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) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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