Analysis of Mutation.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The peaceful years, and then the stormy time
When the perturbed Earth moans, and Death himself
Seems ready to seize all his prey, 'to smite
Once and to smite no more.' Not yet the end,
And still the labour of the God goes on:
Time sows and reaps, and men are born and die;
Moons wax and wane, and all is changing still
As in the dream of some mysterious Power,
A dream of joy and woe, obscure as life —
That vagrant melody still lapsing down
The aeons to our doom!
Scheme | ABCCDCEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 1001110101 1101111111 1011111101 010110111 1101011101 1101011101 100111010010 0111010111 1101001101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 358 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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