Analysis of Written in March

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter
The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the strongest;
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!

Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The plowboy is whooping- anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone!


Scheme AABBCDDAAC EEFFCGGAAX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 01110 01110 01110 01110 0111001 010010 1111010 010110 111010 11101011 1110010 011010 01111 1011011 0111011 110010 110010 11110 11010 0111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 543
Words 97
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 10
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 211
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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