Analysis of Entranced.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
A trance upon my spirit fell;
It seemed as I were hurled
Through aeons like an atom dark
Beyond the flaming world:
From void to void without a breath,
As in a weird unknown
Where Death had done his oldest work,
And God himself was gone!
| Scheme | ABCBDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 111101 1111101 010101 11110101 100101 11111101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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