Analysis of Rural Architecture
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore,
Three rosy-cheeked school-boys, the highest not more
Than the height of a counsellor's bag;
To the top of GREAT HOW did it please them to climb:
And there they built up, without mortar or lime,
A Man on the peak of the crag.
They built him of stones gathered up as they lay:
They built him and christened him all in one day,
An urchin both vigorous and hale;
And so without scruple they called him Ralph Jones.
Now Ralph is renowned for the length of his bones;
The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.
Just half a week after, the wind sallied forth,
And, in anger or merriment, out of the north,
Coming on with a terrible pother,
From the peak of the crag blew the giant away.
And what did these school-boys?--The very next day
They went and they built up another.
--Some little I've seen of blind boisterous works
By Christian disturbers more savage than Turks,
Spirits busy to do and undo:
At remembrance whereof my blood sometimes will flag;
Then, light-hearted Boys, to the top of the crag!
And I'll build up giant with you.
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Metre | 111011001001 11011101011 1011011 101111111111 01111011011 01101101 11111101111 11101011011 110110001 01011011111 11101101111 01111 1101100111 0010111101 101101001 101101101001 01111101011 110111010 11011111001 110111011 101011001 10101110111 11101101101 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,089 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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