Analysis of Ecclesiastes
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 (Kensington, London) – 1936 (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray,
Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.
There is one blasphemy: for death to pray,
For God alone knoweth the praise of death.
There is one creed: ’’neath no world-terror’s wing
Apples forget to grow on apple-trees.
There is one thing is needful everything
The rest is vanity of vanities.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1111110111 1010101 1111001111 110110111 1111111101 1001111101 111111010 0111001100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 361 |
Words | 61 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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