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 |
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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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