Analysis of Conversion
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
When this world's pleasures for my soul sufficed,
Ere my heart's plummet sounded depths of pain,
I call on Reason to control my brain,
And scoffed at that old story of Christ.
But when o'er burning wastes my feet had trod,
And all my life was desolate with loss,
With bleeding hands I clung about the cross,
And cried aloud, 'Man needs a suffering God! '
| Scheme | ABBA CDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011101 1111010111 1111010111 011111011 11101011111 0111110011 1101110101 01011101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 365 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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