Analysis of Good And Evil.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Good thoughts, 'tis said, are no more than good dreams
Save they be into action put, and that
On opportunity depends. Alas!
If place and power cohered, what good were done
Which else, a babe still-born, has no way here,
But in the womb of good intention fails,
The heart's abortion! Ay, and thuswise too,
Full many a foul intent in that it has
No power or place of action is debarred
A monstrous birth. So nature haply does
In some mysterious way we do not know
Still hold the balance 'tween the good and ill
Of thought in action here, and we become
(In spite of our own selves full oft indeed)
Dispensers of a higher equity
Than the bare law of reason would allow.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 1110110101 101000101 11010011101 1101111111 1001110101 010101011 11001010111 1101111011 010111011 01010011111 1101010101 1101010101 01110111101 0101010100 1011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 518 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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