Analysis of Of Man By Nature
John Bunyan 1628 (Elstow, Bedfordshire) – 1688 (London)
From God he's a backslider,
Of ways he loves the wider;
With wickedness a sider,
More venom than a spider.
In sin he's a considerer,
A make-bate and divider;
Blind reason is his guider,
The devil is his rider.
| Scheme | AAAAAAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
| Metre | 11101 1111010 1100010 1101010 01101 0110010 1101110 0101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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