Analysis of Natural Gifts.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



The gifts o' the gods; not all men have them, ay,
And some indeed that have them know it not;
And some that have them not, deem that they have,
And there's the mischief: it is this that makes
So many failures, tempts men to betray
Their proper selves, and on a false surmise
Of what they are or will be, lures them to
Their own undoing; as pirate lights decoy
Unwary mariners to ruin on
A monstrous shore.


Scheme ABCDAEFGHI
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 01101111111 0101111111 0111111111 0101011111 1101011101 1101010101 1111111111 11010110101 0101001101 0101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 404
Words 81
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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