Analysis of The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade

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



The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade;
The sweetest notes must terminate and die;
O Friend! thy flute has breathed a harmony
Softly resounded through this rocky glade;
Such strains of rapture as the Genius played
In his still haunt on Bagdad's summit high;
He who stood visible to Mirza's eye,
Never before to human sight betrayed.
Lo, in the vale, the mists of evening spread!
The visionary Arches are not there,
Nor the green Islands, nor the shining Seas:
Yet sacred is to me this Mountain's head,
Whence I have risen, uplifted, on the breeze
Of harmony, above all earthly care.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0101011101 010111001 1111110100 10111101 1111010101 011111101 111100111 1001110101 1001011101 010010111 1011010101 1101111101 11110100101 1100011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 582
Words 104
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 462
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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