Analysis of The Virgin
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
. Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost
With the least shade of thought to sin allied.
Woman! above all women glorified,
Our tainted nature's solitary boast;
Purer than foam on central ocean tost;
Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn
With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon
Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast;
Thy image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween,
Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend,
As to a visible Power, in which did blend
All that was mixed and reconciled in thee
Of mother's love with maiden purity,
Of high with low, celestial with terrene!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101011 1011111101 100111010 1010101001 1011110101 101101111 11010100101 01010111011 1101111111 101001111 110100100111 111101001 1101110100 111101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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