Analysis of The Inward Judge
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
From Institutes of Manu.
The soul itself its awful witness is.
Say not in evil doing, 'No one sees,'
And so offend the conscious One within,
Whose ear can hear the silences of sin.
Ere they find voice, whose eyes unsleeping see
The secret motions of iniquity.
Nor in thy folly say, 'I am alone.'
For, seated in thy heart, as on a throne,
The ancient Judge and Witness liveth still,
To note thy act and thought; and as thy ill
Or good goes from thee, far beyond thy reach,
The solemn Doomsman's seal is set on each.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 0101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1111010011 11111111 0101010100 1011011101 1100111101 010101011 1111010111 1111110111 010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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