Analysis of Picture of Daniel in the Lion's Den at Hamilton Palace
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
Amid a fertile region green with wood
And fresh with rivers, well doth it become
The Ducal Owner, in his Palace-home
To naturalise this tawny Lion brood;
Children of Art, that claim strange brotherhood,
Couched in their Den, with those that roam at large
Over the burning wilderness, and charge
The wind with terror while they roar for food.
But
these
are satiate, and a stillness drear
Calls into life a more enduring fear;
Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave
Daunt him - if his Companions, now bedrowsed
Yawning and listless, were by hunger roused:
Man placed him here, and God, he knows, can save.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010111 0111011101 0101001101 11110101 101111110 1011111111 1001010001 0111011111 1 1 1100101 1011010101 1101011101 111101011 1001001101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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