Analysis of Life And Death.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
We come like bats that out of a dark cave
Have suddenly been scared into the day,
Blear-eyed and vexed as here and there they flap,
Unnatural denizens of such a world.
So seem we all, as this were not our home,
And we, as aliens in these elements,
Move here and there, purblind, heart-weary, and
Possessed with many fears, till Death's new dark
Shows us our passage back to the old cave,
Whence Birth before may have affrighted us.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHAI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1111111011 1100110101 1101110111 01001001101 11111101101 01110001100 110111100 0111011111 11101011011 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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