Analysis of 'Me, A Sinner'
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Should it occasion much surprise
That criminals should deal in blame,
As all of us, and recognise
The full depth of another's shame.
The burglar blames the bigamist
As something partially insane,
And Bluebeards equally insist
That burglars are a sinful bane.
And, getting further up the scale,
To normal men, like you and I,
The rule is never known to fail,
While egotism throned on high,
Sets cunning traps for you and me,
Blind with the illusion of our worth,
To ape the smirking Pharisee,
And see sin stalking o'er the earth.
In a community of saints,
Where all sins save fault-finding die,
One still might look for grave complaints
Concerning haloes worn awry.
But as this sinful earth is trod,
He who, of Jezebel or Cain,
Says, 'There, but for the grace of God,
Go I,' is the most nearly sane.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFXGAG HCHFCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11001101 111101 01110101 010101 11010001 0110001 11010101 01010101 11011101 01110111 1100111 11011101 1100101101 110101 011101001 00010011 11111101 11111101 0101101 11110111 111111 11110111 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 783 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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