Analysis of Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau

William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)



Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;
Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.
And every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking eye,
But still in Israel's paths they shine.

The Atoms of Democritus
And Newton's Particles of Light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 11111101 11010101 00111101 010010101 01000101 11110101 11010111 01011 01010011 11010111 11011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 411
Words 78
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 161
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 04, 2023

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