Analysis of Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel.
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal
O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal
That grief for which the senses still supply
Fresh food; for only then, when memory
Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me droop again.
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Metre | 1111010101 0111010101 0101110111 1101001101 1101010111 1010100011 1011110100 1101010111 1111010101 1111011100 1111111101 1101110111 111111111 011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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