Analysis of William Blake
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
He came to the desert of London town
Gray miles long;
He wandered up and he wandered down,
Singing a quiet song.
He came to the desert of London town,
Mirk miles broad;
He wandered up and he wandered down,
Ever alone with God.
There were thousands and thousands of human kind
In this desert of brick and stone;
But some were deaf and some were blind,
And he was there alone.
At length the good hour came; he died
As he had lived, alone.
He was not missed from the desert wide;
Perhaps he was found at the throne.
Scheme | AbAb AxAx cdcd eded |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1110101101 111 110101101 100101 1110101101 111 110101101 100111 10100101101 01101101 11010101 011101 110110111 111101 111110101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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