Analysis of Spirit Fear.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
I look with half unfriendly eyes
Into the casual eyes I meet,
As if my spirit feared surprise,
Dim-memoried with some old defeat.
In a far life it may be, when
It breathed in a monastic cell,
And found a fallacy in men
More sad than any tongue can tell
Or flashing in a warrior's fame
A sword for friendship fiercely drew
But turned to dust an honored name
And made life's mead a bitter brew.
And still like an ancestral stain
The memory on the spirit lies,
And still it fears to meet again
The light of those accusing eyes
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 010100111 11110101 1111101 00111111 11000101 01010001 11110111 1100011 01110101 11111101 01110101 01110101 010010101 01111101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 413 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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