Analysis of Bigotry.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
How often our beliefs more than our doubts
Ruin and mar us here, clog the soul's feet,
And shackle the heart's best impulses so,
That for Heaven's love we do inhuman things,
And with a (Unclear quietude
Hear babes moan in the everlasting fire!
| Scheme | ABCDBE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100111101 1001111011 0100111001 11101110101 010011 1110001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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