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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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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