Analysis of Methought I Saw The Footsteps Of A Throne
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
METHOUGHT I saw the footsteps of a throne
Which mists and vapours from mine eyes did shroud--
Nor view of who might sit thereon allowed;
But all the steps and ground about were strown
With sights the ruefullest that flesh and bone
Ever put on; a miserable crowd,
Sick, hale, old, young, who cried before that cloud,
'Thou art our king, O Death! to thee we groan.'
Those steps I clomb; the mists before me gave
Smooth way; and I beheld the face of one
Sleeping alone within a mossy cave,
With her face up to heaven; that seemed to have
Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone;
A lovely Beauty in a summer grave!
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Metre | 11101101 110111111 1111110101 1101010101 11011101 1011010001 1111110111 11101111111 1111010111 110110111 100101011 10111101111 1001010111 0101000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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