Analysis of To a Sky-Lark
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
Up with me! up with me into the clouds!
For thy song, Lark, is strong;
Up with me, up with me into the clouds!
Singing, singing,
With clouds and sky about thee ringing,
Lift me, guide me till I find
That spot which seems so to thy mind!
I have walked through wildernesses dreary
And to-day my heart is weary;
Had I now the wings of a Faery,
Up to thee would I fly.
There is madness about thee, and joy divine
In that song of thine;
Lift me, guide me high and high
To thy banqueting-place in the sky.
Joyous as morning
Thou art laughing and scorning;
Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest,
And, though little troubled with sloth,
Drunken Lark! thou would'st be loth
To be such a traveller as I.
Happy, happy Liver,
With a soul as strong as a mountain river
Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver,
Joy and jollity be with us both!
Alas! my journey, rugged and uneven,
Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind;
But hearing thee, or others of thy kind,
As full of gladness and as free of heaven,
I, with my fate contented, will plod on,
And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done.
Scheme | AbAccdd eeefggff cbxhxfiiih jddjxj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 111111 1111110101 1010 110101110 1111111 11111111 1111110 01111110 11101101 111111 11100110101 01111 1111101 1111001 10110 111001 1101111011 01101011 10111111 111010011 101010 10111101010 10111001010 1011111 01110100010 1101110111 1101110111 1111011110 1111010111 01110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,080 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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