Analysis of Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
'WHO but hails the sight with pleasure
When the wings of genius rise,
Their ability to measure
With great enterprise;
But in man was ne'er such daring
As yon Hawk exhibits, pairing
His brave spirit with the war in
The stormy skies!
'Mark him, how his power he uses,
Lays it by, at will resumes!
Mark, ere for his haunt he chooses
Clouds and utter glooms!
There, he wheels in downward mazes;
Sunward now his flight he raises,
Catches fire, as seems, and blazes
With uninjured plumes!'--
'Stranger, 'tis no act of courage
Which aloft thou dost discern;
No bold 'bird' gone forth to forage
'Mid the tempest stern;
But such mockery as the nations
See, when public perturbations
Lift men from their native stations
Like yon TUFT OF FERN;
'Such it is; the aspiring creature
Soaring on undaunted wing,
(So you fancied) is by nature
A dull helpless thing,
Dry and withered, light and yellow;--
'That' to be the tempest's fellow!
Wait--and you shall see how hollow
Its endeavouring!'
Scheme | ABABCCXB DEDBFDFE XGXGHHHG ACACIIIC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 1011101 10100110 1110 10111110 11101010 11101010 0101 111110110 1111101 11111110 10101 11101010 10111110 101011010 10101 10111110 1011101 11111110 10101 111001010 1110010 11111010 11111 111001010 1010101 11101110 01101 10101010 1110110 10111110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 960 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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