Analysis of Song For The Wandering Jew

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



Though the torrents from their fountains
Roar down many a craggy steep,
Yet they find among the mountains
Resting-places calm and deep.

Clouds that love through air to hasten,
Ere the storm its fury stills,
Helmet-like themselves will fasten
On the heads of towering hills.

What, if through the frozen centre
Of the Alps the Chamois bound,
Yet he has a home to enter
In some nook of chosen ground:

And the Sea-horse, though the ocean
Yield him no domestic cave,
Slumbers without sense of motion,
Couched upon the rocking wave.

If on windy days the Raven
Gambol like a dancing skiff,
Not the less she loves her haven
In the bosom of the cliff.

The fleet Ostrich, till day closes,
Vagrant over desert sands,
Brooding on her eggs reposes
When chill night that care demands.

Day and night my toils redouble,
Never nearer to the goal;
Night and day, I feel the trouble
Of the Wanderer in my soul.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG CHCH XIAI JKJK
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10101110 11100101 11101010 1010101 11111110 1011101 10101110 10111001 11101010 101011 11101110 0111101 00111010 1110101 1011110 1010101 11101010 110101 10111010 0010101 01101110 1010101 101011 1111101 10111010 1010101 10111010 10100011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 899
Words 162
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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