Analysis of A Prophecy. February 1807
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
HIGH deeds, O Germans, are to come from you!
Thus in your books the record shall be found,
'A watchword was pronounced, a potent sound--
ARMINIUS!--all the people quaked like dew
Stirred by the breeze; they rose, a Nation, true,
True to herself--the mighty Germany,
She of the Danube and the Northern Sea,
She rose, and off at once the yoke she threw.
All power was given her in the dreadful trance;
Those new-born Kings she withered like a flame.'
--Woe to them all! but heaviest woe and shame
To that Bavarian who could first advance
His banner in accursed league with France,
First open traitor to the German name!
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Metre | 1111011111 1011001111 011010101 11010111 1101110101 1101010100 1101000101 1101110111 110110000101 1111110101 11111100101 11010011101 11001111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 478 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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