Analysis of XI. Written at Ostend
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
HOW sweet the tuneful bells' responsive peal!
As when, at opening morn, the fragrant breeze
Breathes on the trembling sense of wan disease,
So piercing to my heart their force I feel!
And hark! with lessening cadence now they fall,
And now, along the white and level tide,
They fling their melancholy music wide,
Bidding me many a tender thought recall
Of summer-days, and those delightful years,
When by my native streams, in life's fair prime,
The mournful magic of their mingling chime
First wak'd my wond'ring childhood into tears!
But seeming now, when all those days are o'er,
The sounds of joy, once heard, and heard no more.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 11110010101 11010011101 1101111111 01110010111 0101010101 111100101 1011001011 1101010101 1111010111 01010111001 111111011 11011111110 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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