Analysis of Where Lies The Land To Which Yon Ship Must Go?

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



WHERE lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?
Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day,
Festively she puts forth in trim array;
Is she for tropic suns, or polar snow?
What boots the inquiry?--Neither friend nor foe
She cares for; let her travel where she may,
She finds familiar names, a beaten way
Ever before her, and a wind to blow.
Yet still I ask, what haven is her mark?
And, almost as it was when ships were rare,
(From time to time, like Pilgrims, here and there
Crossing the waters) doubt, and something dark,
Of the old Sea some reverential fear,
Is with me at thy farewell, joyous Bark!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101111111 1101101111 11110101 1111011101 11001010111 1111010111 1101010101 1001000111 1111110101 011111101 1111110101 1001010101 101110101 111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 117
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 459
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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