Analysis of Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture Painted By Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
PRAISED be the Art whose subtle power could stay
Yon cloud, and fix it in that glorious shape;
Nor would permit the thin smoke to escape,
Nor those bright sunbeams to forsake the day;
Which stopped that band of travellers on their way,
Ere they were lost within the shady wood;
And showed the Bark upon the glassy flood
For ever anchored in her sheltering bay.
Soul-soothing Art! whom Morning, Noontide, Even,
Do serve with all their changeful pageantry;
Thou, with ambition modest yet sublime,
Here, for the sight of mortal man, hast given
To one brief moment caught from fleeting time
The appropriate calm of blest eternity.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101011 11011011001 1101011101 111110101 11111100111 1101010101 0101010101 11010001001 1101110110 111111100 1101010101 11011101110 1111011101 001001110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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