Analysis of Insurrections
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
I saw God. Do you doubt it?
Do you dare to doubt it?
I saw the Almighty Man. His hand
Was resting on a mountain, and
He looked upon the World and all about it:
I saw Him plainer than you see me now,
You mustn't doubt it.
He was not satisfied;
His look was all dissatisfied.
His beard swung on a wind far out of sight
Behind the world's curve, and there was light
Most fearful from His forehead, and He sighed,
'That star went always wrong, and from the start
I was dissatisfied.'
He lifted up His hand-
I say He heaved a dreadful hand
Over the spinning Earth, then I said 'Stay,
You must not strike it, God; I'm in the way;
And I will never move from where I stand.'
He said, 'Dear child, I feared that you were dead,'
And stayed His hand.
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Metre | 1111111 111111 110010111 11010100 11010101011 1111011111 11011 11110 1111010 1111011111 010110111 1101110011 111110101 11010 110111 11110101 1001011111 1111111001 0111011111 1111111101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 557 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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