Analysis of Four Things
Henry Van Dyke 1852 (Germantown, Pennsylvania) – 1933 (Princeton, New Jersey)
Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow man sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.
| Scheme | AABBBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011111 11111011 110101010 111101010 111101010 1101010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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