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.


Scheme ABBACDDAEFFGEH
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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