Analysis of Morality.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Evil itself may be but good disguised,
As many a virtue now was once a vice,
Or held to be such by the moralists;
Or as even in the eyes of foreigners
Our virtues may be vices, theirs to us
As vicious too. We make us new laws still,
And hold that finable and barred to-day
That was but yesterday allowable.
Our neighbours haply no such laws enact,
And privilege what we make punitive.
So right and wrong are still conditional,
And there's no absolute morality
In all the world; for conscience herself is
Full oft but Custom's creature, whom he keeps,
Who sees with him, and hears with him, and acts
As by his power of attorney still.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111101 11001011101 1111110100 11100011100 10101110111 1101111111 01110111 111100100 101111101 010111100 1101110100 011100100 0101110011 111110111 1111011101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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