Analysis of October, 1803
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
. These times strike monied worldlings with dismay:
Even rich men, brave by nature, taint the air
With words of apprehension and despair:
While tens of thousands, thinking on the affray,
Men unto whom sufficient for the day
And minds not stinted or untilled are given,
Sound, healthy, children of the God of heaven,
Are cheerful as the rising sun in May.
What do we gather hence but firmer faith
That every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath;
That virtue and the faculties within
Are vital,--and that riches are akin
To fear, to change, to cowardice, and death?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101101 10111110101 111010001 1111010101 1101010101 011111110 11010101110 1101010101 1111011101 11001110100 11011101001 1100010001 1100110101 1111110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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