Analysis of Wisdom.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
There are some things in life are very poor,
And some unpriceable: our wisdom is
To know our rubbish and our riches here;
To, as it were, sort out ourselves, and blow
The world's dust off the jewels that we have,
Revealing them.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011101 01110101 111010010101 11101100101 0111010111 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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