Analysis of Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
. Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense,
With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned--
Albeit labouring for a scanty band
Of white-robed Scholars only--this immense
And glorious Work of fine intelligence!
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more;
So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense
These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof
Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells,
Where light and shade repose, where music dwells
Lingering--and wandering on as loth to die;
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 111101011 010110101 1111010101 01001110100 11111100101 110100111 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 100010011111 111101011 110110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 503 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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