Analysis of To H. C.
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
SIX YEARS OLD
O THOU! whose fancies from afar are brought;
Who of thy words dost make a mock apparel,
And fittest to unutterable thought
The breeze-like motion and the self-born carol;
Thou faery voyager! that dost float
In such clear water, that thy boat
May rather seem
To brood on air than on an earthly stream;
Suspended in a stream as clear as sky,
Where earth and heaven do make one imagery;
O blessed vision! happy child!
Thou art so exquisitely wild,
I think of thee with many fears
For what may be thy lot in future years.
I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest,
Lord of thy house and hospitality;
And Grief, uneasy lover! never rest
But when she sate within the touch of thee.
O too industrious folly!
O vain and causeless melancholy!
Nature will either end thee quite;
Or, lengthening out thy season of delight,
Preserve for thee, by individual right,
A young lamb's heart among the full-grown flocks.
What hast thou to do with sorrow,
Or the injuries of to-morrow?
Thou art a dew-drop, which the morn brings forth,
Ill fitted to sustain unkindly shocks,
Or to be trailed along the soiling earth;
A gem that glitters while it lives,
And no forewarning gives;
But, at the touch of wrong, without a strife
Slips in a moment out of life.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1111010111 11111101010 010111 01110001110 11100111 01110111 1101 1111111101 0100011111 11010111100 1110101 1111001 11111101 1111110101 1111111111 111100100 0101010101 1111010111 11010010 1101100 10110111 11001110101 0111101001 0111010111 11111110 101001110 1101110111 11010111 111101011 01110111 010101 1101110101 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,232 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 33 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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