Analysis of Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
YES! thou art fair, yet be not moved
To scorn the declaration,
That sometimes I in thee have loved
My fancy's own creation.
Imagination needs must stir;
Dear Maid, this truth believe,
Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.
Be pleased that nature made thee fit
To feed my heart's devotion,
By laws to which all Forms submit
In sky, air, earth, and ocean.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC DADA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 110010 10110111 111010 0010111 111101 11110101 110101 11110111 1111010 11111101 0111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 371 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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