Analysis of The Study and Beauties of the Works of Nature
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
O Nature! all-sufficient! over all!
Enrich me with the knowledge of Thy works!
Snatch me to heaven; Thy rolling wonders there,
World beyond world, in infinite extent,
Profusely scatter'd o'er the void immense,
Shew me; their motions, periods, and their laws,
Give me to scan; through the disclosing deep
Light my blind way; the mineral strata there;
Thrust, blooming, thence the vegetable world;
O'er that the rising system more complex,
Of animals; and higher still, the mind,
The varied scene of quick-compounded thought,
And where the mixing passions endless shift;
These ever open to my ravish'd eye;
A search, the flight of time can ne'er exhaust!
But if to that unequal; if the blood,
In sluggish streams about my heart, forbid
That best ambition; under closing shades,
Inglorious, lay me by the lowly brook,
And whisper to my dreams. From Thee begin,
Dwell all on Thee, with Thee conclude my song:
And let me never, never stray from Thee!
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Metre | 1101010101 0111010111 11110110101 1011010001 01010100101 11110100011 1111100101 11110100101 110101001 10101010110 1100010101 0101110101 0101010101 110101111 0101111101 1111010101 0101011101 1101010101 01001110101 0101111101 1111110111 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 933 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 739 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 159 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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