Analysis of The Blind Summit
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
[A Viennese gentleman, who had climbed the Hoch-König
without a guide, was found dead, in a sitting posture, near the
summit, upon which he had written, 'It is cold, and clouds shut
out the view.'-
Vide
the
Daily News
of September 10, 1891.]
So mounts the child of ages of desire,
Man, up the steeps of Thought; and would behold
Yet purer peaks, touched with unearthlier fire,
In sudden prospect virginally new;
But on the lone last height he sighs: ''Tis cold,
And clouds shut out the view.'
Ah, doom of mortals! Vexed with phantoms old,
Old phantoms that waylay us and pursue,-
Weary of dreams,-we think to see unfold
The eternal landscape of the Real and True;
And on our Pisgah can but write: ''Tis cold,
And clouds shut out the view.'
Scheme | xaxbxaxc cdcbdB dbdbdB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 0011001110111 010111100101010 100111110111011 101 1 0 101 1010 11011101010 1101110101 110111110 0101011 1101111111 011101 1111011101 110111001 1011111101 0010110101 0110111111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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