Analysis of East London
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
'Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead
Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green,
And the pale weaver, through his windows seen
In Spitalfields, looked thrice dispirited.
I met a preacher there I knew, and said:
"Ill and o'erworked, how fare you in this scene?" -
"Bravely!" said he; "for I of late have been
Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread."
O human soul! as long as thou canst so
Set up a mark of everlasting light,
Above the howling senses' ebb and flow,
To cheer thee, and to right thee if thou roam -
Not with lost toil thou labourest through the night!
Thou mak'st the heaven thou hop'st indeed thy home.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100011101 110101111 0011011101 01110100 1101011101 101111011 1011111111 1111110101 1101111111 110110101 0101010101 1110111111 111111101 1110101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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