Analysis of Youth's Inexperience.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
He is too young yet to know life's demands;
Being no natural philosopher,
He must from cause and custom draw that art
Which some of Nature have, the primal gift
Of all her treasury — the open thought
That climates in all circumstances, and breathes
A native ease in everything; fear-proof,
Even as a wild bird's weather-proof, being born
And bred light as the leaves he habits in;
Unlike his brother housed and finely reared
With magisterial care, whom every change
Affects like a distemper, as if he
Had lost his nature's ancient art, and grew
Like an exotic with a borrowed life.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1011000100 1111010111 1111010101 1101000101 1100110001 010101011 101011101101 0111011100 0111010101 10100111001 0110010111 1111010101 110101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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