Analysis of I am no mystic
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I am no mystic. All the ways of God
Are dark to me.
I know not if he lived or if he died
In agony.
My every act has reference to man.
Some human need
Of this one, or of that, or of myself
Inspires the deed.
But when I hear the Angelus, I say
A Latin prayer
Hoping the dim incanted words may shine
Some way, somewhere.
Words and a will may work upon my mind
Till ethics turn
To that transcendent mystic love with which
The Seraphim burn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 1111 1111111111 0100 11001110011 1101 111111111 0101 11110111 0101 10011111 111 1001110111 1101 1101010111 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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