Analysis of Approach to St. Paul's
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Eastwards through busy streets I lingered on;
Jostled by anxious crowds, who, heart and brain,
Were so absorbed in dreams of Mammon-gain,
That they could spare no time to look upon
The sunset's gold and crimson fires, which shone
Blessing keen eyes and wrinkled brows in vain.
Right in my path stood out that solemn Fane
Whose soaring cupola of stern grey stone
Lifteth for awful beacon to the sky
The burning Cross: silent and sole amid
That ceaseless uproar, as a pyramid
Isled in its desert. The great throngs pressed by
Heedless and urgent thus Religion towers
Above this sordid, restless life of ours.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 1011011101 010101111 1111111101 0110101011 1011010101 1011111101 1100101111 111010101 0101100101 110110100 1011001111 1010101010 01110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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