Analysis of Evil
Marie E J Pitt 1869 (Bullumwaal, Victoria) – 1948 (Kew, Victoria)
NOT Beelzebub, but white archangel, I
Turn the dim glass and shift the sands again,
And touch the eyelids of the sons of men
Lest they forget—forget and drowsy lie
In Fate’s unfurrowed fallow till they die—
As seed that quickens not for dawns that leap
From out the dark of immemorial years,
With kiss of wind and sun and wizard tears
Of fugitive clouds to wake them from their sleep.
With milestones I have set the crumbling sod
Of human judgement that they stray not wide,
Nor languish lost in labyrinths alway;
And smile in pity when I hear them pray
That Wrong’s rude whips from them be turned aside,
Who call me Evil—not discerning God.
Scheme | ABBAACDECFGHIGF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111101 1011010101 010110111 1101010101 0111111 1111011111 1101101001 1111010101 11001111111 1111101001 1101011111 1101011 0101011111 1111111101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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