Analysis of Spiritual Education.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



Within time's stress, amid the facts of life,
Not in monastic solitudes, we find
A way to that is higher than ourselves.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 0111010111 10010111 01111101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 126
Words 24
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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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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