Analysis of A Sketch
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
The little hedgerow birds,
That peck along the road, regard him not.
He travels on, and in his face, his step,
His gait, is one expression; every limb,
His look and bending figure, all bespeak
A man who does not move with pain, but moves
With thought. -He is insensibly subdued
To settled quiet: he is one by whom
All effort seems forgotten; one to whom
Long patience hath such mild composure given
That patience now doth seem a thing of which
He hath no need. He is by nature led
To peace so perfect, that the young behold
With envy what the Old Man hardly feels.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011 1101010111 1101001111 11110101001 1101010101 0111111111 1111101 1101011111 1101010111 11011101010 1101110111 1111111101 1110110101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 440 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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