Analysis of Life, A Language.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Life is a language every man must use,
Some with a wondrous faculty, and some
So blindly that they seem like Caliban
Or e'er the good and great magician took
Pity upon his impotence, and made
The discord of his reason musical.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010100111 1101010001 11011111 11001010101 1001110001 0101110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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