Analysis of Egoism.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Not as mine their thoughts who pass:
Each has his life's looking-glass
Limning therein the light and shade
His own entity has made.
I have my life's vision still
Coloured for me, good or ill,
And my point of view must be
But my own immortally.
Could I guess at theirs, or know
What shapes in their vision go.
Lift the veil by day and night
That's laid on another's light, —
They might with a fancy free
Get, too, at the gist of me,
And with a plebeian shout
Turn the Gods I worship out,
To be in a concourse lewd
Jeered at by the multitude,
While I with a reeling brain
Talked with Demons in the fane!
Scheme | AABBCCDCEEFFDDGGHHII |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111111 1111101 1010101 1110011 1111101 1011111 0111111 1111 1111111 1101101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1110111 0100101 1011101 110011 111010 1110101 1110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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