Analysis of A Man's a Sliding Mood
Mary E Fullerton 1868 (Glenmaggie, Victoria) – 1946 (Maresfield)
Ardent in love and cold in charity,
Loud in the market, timid in debate:
Scornful of foe unbuckled in the dust
At whimper of a child compassionate,
A man's a sliding mood from hour to hour,
Rage, and a singing forest of bright birds,
Laughter with lovely friends,and loneliness,
Woe with her heavy horn of unspoke words.
What is he then this heir of heart and mind?
Is this the man with his conflicting moods,
Or is there in a deeper dwelling place
Some silly shaping thing that bides and broods?
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010100 1001010001 10111001 1101010100 010101110110 1001010111 101101100 110101111 1111111101 1101110101 1110010101 1101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 493 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 392 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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