Analysis of Art's Discipline



Long since I came into the school of Art,
A child in works, but not a child in heart.
Slowly I learn, by her instruction mild,
To be in works a man, in heart a child.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 1111010111 0101110101 1011100101 1101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 171
Words 38
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Fuller Murray

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