Analysis of A Creed
That I should live and look with open eyes
I count as half my claim to Paradise.
I have not crept beneath cathedral arches,
But bathed in streams beneath the silver larches;
And have not grovelled to the Sunday priest,
But found an unconfined and daily feast;
Was called ungodly, and to those who blamed
Laughed back defiance and was not ashamed.
Some hold their duty to be mournful; why?
I cannot love your weeping poets; I
Am sad in winter, but in summer gay,
And vary with each variable day.
And though the pious cavilled at my mirth,
At least I rendered thanks for God's fair earth,
Grateful that I, among the murmuring rest,
Was not an unappreciative guest.
Scheme | AXXA BBCC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111011101 111111110 11110101010 1101010101 01111011 111010101 1101001111 1101001101 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110001 010101111 1111011111 10110101001 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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