Analysis of Conscience.

Margaret Steele Anderson 1867 – 1921



Wisdom am I when thou art but a fool;
My part the man, when thou hast played the clod;
Hast lost thy garden? When the eve is cool,
Harken!, 'tis I who walk there with thy God!


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1011111101 1101111101 1111010111 1011111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 172
Words 37
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Margaret Steele Anderson

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