Analysis of The Simplon Pass
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
------Brook and road
Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy Pass,
And with them did we journey several hours
At a slow step. The immeasurable height
Of woods decaying, never to be decayed,
The stationary blasts of waterfalls,
And in the narrow rent, at every turn,
Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn,
The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky,
The rocks that muttered close upon our ears,
Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside
As if a voice were in them, the sick sight
And giddy prospect of the raving stream,
The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,
Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light--
Were all like workings of one mind, the features
Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree,
Characters of the great Apocalypse,
The types and symbols of Eternity,
Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKDLMDCNONP |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 101 01010001101 01111101010 1011001001 11010101101 01001110 00010111001 1101010001 0101010111 01110101101 1100111101 1101001011 0101010101 001010101010 1001010001 01110111010 1011100111 100101010 0101010100 1101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 847 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 664 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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