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 |
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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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