Analysis of A Baby-Sermon
George MacDonald 1824 (Huntly) – 1905 (Ashtead)
The lightning and thunder
They go and they come:
But the stars and the stillness
Are always at home.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 11011 1010010 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 97 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 15, 2023
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