Analysis of The Waster's Presentiment

Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894



I shall be spun. There is a voice within
Which tells me plainly I am all undone;
For though I toil not, neither do I spin,
I shall be spun.

April approaches. I have not begun
Schwegler or Mackintosh, nor will begin
Those lucid works till April 21.

So my degree I do not hope to win,
For not by ways like mine degrees are won;
And though, to please my uncle, I go in,
I shall be spun.


Scheme abaB bax abaB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101 1111011101 1111110111 1111 1001011101 1001101101 1101110 1101111111 1111110111 0111110110 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 391
Words 81
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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