Analysis of Guiltless Heart
The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free
From all dishonest deeds and thoughts of vanity:
The man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent,
Whom hopes cannot delude, nor fortune discontent;
That man needs neither towers nor armor for defense,
Nor secret vaults to fly from thunder's violence:
He only can behold with unaffrighted eyes
The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies;
Thus scorning all the care that fate or fortune brings,
He makes the heaven his book, his wisdom heavenly things;
Good thoughts his only friends, his wealth a well-spent age,
The earth his sober inn and quiet pilgrimage.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101110111 110101011100 011101010111 111001110001 1111010110101 11011111100 110101111 010101010101 11101111101 11010111101001 111101110111 011101010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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