Analysis of It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
IT is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown,
And is descending on his embassy;
Nor Traveller gone from earth the heavens to espy!
'Tis Hesperus--there he stands with glittering crown,
First admonition that the sun is down!
For yet it is broad day-light: clouds pass by;
A few are near him still--and now the sky,
He hath it to himself--'tis all his own.
O most ambitious Star! an inquest wrought
Within me when I recognised thy light;
A moment I was startled at the sight:
And, while I gazed, there came to me a thought
That I might step beyond my natural race
As thou seem'st now to do; might one day trace
Some ground not mine; and, strong her strength above,
My Soul, an Apparition in the place,
Tread there with steps that no one shall reprove!
Scheme | ABBCCDDAEFFEGGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111011 0101011100 1100111010110 1111111001 101010111 1111111111 0111110101 1111011111 110101111 01111111 0101110101 0111111101 11110111001 11111111111 1111010101 111010001 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 578 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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