Analysis of The Table Turned
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless--
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:--
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IXIA JKJK GLGL MNMN |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 1101110 11110111 1111010 01010101 01001010 11011111 1111010 11010101 110110 11110111 1111001 0111011 1111110 11010111 1101110 11011101 1010111 010010111 1111 11010101 111111 11010011 110101 11011101 1010010 1101111 110101 01110011 111101 11011101 110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,059 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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