Analysis of A Complaint

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



There is a change--and I am poor;
Your love hath been, nor long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
And flow it did; not taking heed
Of its own bounty, or my need.

What happy moments did I count!
Blest was I then all bliss above!
Now, for that consecrated fount
Of murmuring, sparkling, living love,
What have I? Shall I dare to tell?
A comfortless and hidden well.

A well of love--it may be deep--
I trust it is,--and never dry:
What matter? If the waters sleep
In silence and obscurity.
--Such change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.


Scheme ABCBDD XEDEFF GXGXCA
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11111101 01011111 11010111 01111101 11110111 11010111 11111101 1111001 110010101 11111111 010101 01111111 11110101 11010101 01000100 11010101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 590
Words 118
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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