Analysis of Inspiration.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
There's a wind that sweeps through the day and night,
And like the lightning goes,
But none have heard the sound of its wings,
And none know whither it blows;
But where'er it comes the thoughts of men
Are like clouds together hurled,
As they are carried with mystic speed
Over the crazy world.
We see no waving of leafy boughs,
Nor heave of the purple sea;
When this wind its fiercest blows, the Earth
May be still as the dead men be;
But the spirit feels its fiery breath
And the souls of men are stirr'd,
As o'er the mesmeric lines of life
Is flashed the magic word.
The gale from the Spirit-land blows in,
And they who feel it glow
With an ecstasy and ardour like
The seers of long ago —
The vital and inspiring breath
With which ideas are sown,
Like visioned seeds, in the mystic soil
Where the spirit-flowers are grown!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110101 010101 111101111 0111011 110110111 1110101 111101101 100101 111101101 1110101 111110101 11110111 1010111001 0011111 11001111 110101 011010110 011111 11100011 011101 01000101 1101011 11100101 10101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 646 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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