Analysis of The Song-God.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The Song-god helps me mightily, and runs
Before life's purpose like a primal power,
Spirit in sense of all that I am still;
Whose flame burns in the heart, consuming there
The growth of that desire whose grossness would
Darken a dedicated soul, until
Within a sensuous lethargy it grew
Void of the God whose utterance is all.
| Scheme | ABCDECFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111110001 01110101010 1001111111 1110010101 0111010111 1001000101 01010010011 1101110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 326 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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