Analysis of Where Is the Real Non-Resistant
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
(Matthew V, 38-48.)
Who can surrender to Christ, dividing his best with the stranger,
Giving to each what he asks, braving the uttermost danger
All for the enemy, MAN? Who can surrender till death
His words and his works, his house and his lands,
His eyes and his heart and his breath?
Who can surrender to Christ? Many have yearned toward it daily.
Yet they surrender to passion, wildly or grimly or gaily;
Yet they surrender to pride, counting her precious and queenly;
Yet they surrender to knowledge, preening their feathers serenely.
Who can surrender to Christ? Where is the man so transcendent,
So heated with love of his kind, so filled with the spirit resplendent
That all of the hours of his day his song is thrilling and tender,
And all of his thoughts to our white cause of peace
Surrender, surrender, surrender?
| Scheme | A BBCXC AAXA DDBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 101 1101011010111010 1011111100110 11010011101011 1101111011 11011011 1101011101101110 1101011010110110 11010111001001 11010110101100100 110101111011010 11011111111010010 11101011111110010 011111101111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 819 |
| Words | 147 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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