Analysis of Like Him Who Great reports Of Tilth Rejects
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
Like him who great reports of tilth rejects,
Because his own is a most barren field,
Is he who man’s divinity suspects,
Because his own soul doth so little yield.
Better is one who through himself can see
How good, how lovely, all mankind might be,
Though mere experience give his faith the lie,
And all his hopes breathe the world’s breath—to die!
| Scheme | ABABCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011101 0111101101 1111010001 0111111101 1011110111 1111011111 11010011101 0111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 355 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 274 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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