Analysis of Words
William Charles Wentworth 1790 – 1872
Words are deeds. The words we hear
May revolutionize or rear
A mighty state. The words we read
May be a spiritual deed
Excelling any fleshly one,
As much as the celestial sun
Transcends a bonfire, made to throw
A light upon some raree-show.
A simple proverb tagged with rhyme
May colour half the course of time;
The pregnant saying of a sage
May influence every coming age;
A song in its effects may be
More glorious than Thermopylae,
And many a lay that schoolboys scan
A nobler feat than Inkerman.
Scheme | ABCDEEFFGGHHIJKE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 101011 01010111 11010001 0101011 11100101 01010111 0101111 01010111 1110111 01010101 1100100101 01010111 110011 01001111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 399 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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