Analysis of Brave Schill! By Death Delivered

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



BRAVE Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight
From Prussia's timid region. Go, and rest
With heroes, 'mid the islands of the Blest,
Or in the fields of empyrean light.
A meteor wert thou crossing a dark night:
Yet shall thy name, conspicuous and sublime,
Stand in the spacious firmament of time,
Fixed as a star: such glory is thy right.
Alas! it may not be: for earthly fame
Is Fortune's frail dependant; yet there lives
A Judge, who, as man claims by merit, gives;
To whose all-pondering mind a noble aim,
Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed;
In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111010111 111010101 1101010101 1001111 01001110011 11110100001 10010111 1101110111 0111111101 11011111 0111111101 11110010101 1001110101 0111110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 589
Words 109
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 459
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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