Analysis of A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
. A poet!--He hath put his heart to school,
Nor dares to move unpropped upon the staff
Which art hath lodged within his hand--must laugh
By precept only, and shed tears by rule.
Thy Art be Nature; the live current quaff,
And let the groveller sip his stagnant pool,
In fear that else, when Critics grave and cool
Have killed him, Scorn should write his epitaph.
How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold;
And so the grandeur of the Forest-tree
Comes not by casting in a formal mould,
But from its own divine vitality.
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Metre | 0101111111 111110101 1111011111 111001111 1111001101 010111101 0111110101 111111110 1101101101 01010101011 1111001101 0100110101 1111000101 1111010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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