Analysis of Anarchism
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
'TIS not when I am here,
In these homeless homes,
Where sin and shame and disease
And foul death comes;
'Tis not when heart and brain
Would be still and forget
Men and women and children
Dragged down to the pit:
But when I hear them declaiming
Of 'liberty,' 'order,' and 'law,'
The husk-hearted Gentleman
And the mud-hearted Bourgeois,
That a sombre hateful desire
Burns up slow in my breast
To wreck the great guilty Temple,
And give us rest!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 01101 1101001 0111 111101 111001 1010010 11101 111111 1100101 0110100 0011001 10110010 111011 11011010 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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