Analysis of Half-Views.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
It is the half-views are disastrous still;
But size a thing up fully, seize the whole,
And reason then has ground to go upon
For its acceptance or rejection; but
What is half-known, like undigested food,
Ferments, and sourly taints the mental gorge
Until it rises; ignorance so heaves
His good things with his bad into the ditch.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110101 1101110101 0101111101 1101010101 1111111 010110101 0111010011 1111110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 261 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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