Analysis of To B. R. Haydon
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
HIGH is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art
(Whether the instrument of words she use,
Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,)
Demands the service of a mind and heart,
Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part,
Heroically fashioned--to infuse
Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse,
While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may,
Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress,
Still to be strenuous for the bright reward,
And in the soul admit of no decay,
Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness--
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010101 1001001111 11010101001 0101010101 1100101101 10010101 1001010101 1011101110 0111011111 1111010101 11110010101 0001011101 11010011100 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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