Analysis of On The Report That A Wooden Bridge Was To Be Built At Westminster
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
By Rufus' hall, where Thames polluted flows,
Provoked, the Genius of the river rose,
And thus exclaimed: 'Have I, ye British swains,
Have I for ages laved your fertile plains?
Given herds, and flocks, and villages increase,
And fed a richer than a golden fleece?
Have I, ye merchants, with each swelling tide,
Poured Afric's treasure in, and India's pride?
Lent you the fruit of every nation's toil?
Made every climate yours, and every soil?
Yet, pilfered from the poor, by gaming base,
Yet must a wooden bridge my waves disgrace?
Tell not to foreign streams the shameful tale,
And be it published is no Gallic vale.'
He said; and plunging to his crystal dome,
While o'er his head the circling waters foam.
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Metre | 1101110101 0101010101 0101111101 1111011101 10101010001 0101010101 1111011101 1110001001 11011100101 110010101001 1101011101 1101011101 1111010101 0111011101 1101011101 110110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 548 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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