Analysis of Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
ON his morning rounds the Master
Goes to learn how all things fare;
Searches pasture after pasture,
Sheep and cattle eyes with care;
And, for silence or for talk,
He hath comrades in his walk;
Four dogs, each pair of different breed,
Distinguished two for scent, and two for speed.
See a hare before him started!
--Off they fly in earnest chase;
Every dog is eager-hearted,
All the four are in the race:
And the hare whom they pursue,
Knows from instinct what to do;
Her hope is near: no turn she makes;
But, like an arrow, to the river takes.
Deep the river was, and crusted
Thinly by a one night's frost;
But the nimble Hare hath trusted
To the ice, and safely crost;
She hath crost, and without heed
All are following at full speed,
When, lo! the ice, so thinly spread,
Breaks--and the greyhound, DART, is overhead!
Better fate have PRINCE and SWALLOW--
See them cleaving to the sport!
MUSIC has no heart to follow,
Little MUSIC, she stops short.
She hath neither wish nor heart,
Hers is now another part:
A loving creature she, and brave!
And fondly strives her struggling friend to save.
From the brink her paws she stretches,
Very hands as you would say!
And afflicting moans she fetches,
As he breaks the ice away.
For herself she hath no fears,--
Him alone she sees and hears,--
Makes efforts with complainings; nor gives o'er
Until her fellow sinks to re-appear no more.
Scheme | ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IXIDDDJJ KLKLMMNN XOXOXXAX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 11101010 1111111 10101010 1010111 0110111 111011 111111001 0101110111 10101110 1110101 100111010 1011001 0011101 1110111 01111111 1111010101 10101010 1010111 10101110 1010101 1110011 11100111 11011101 100111101 10111010 111101 10111110 1010111 1110111 0110101 01010101 01010100111 10101110 1011111 00101110 1110101 1011111 1011101 110111110 010101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,351 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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