Analysis of "In the Most Important Ways"

Thomas M. Scott 1948 (United States)



"In the Most Important Ways"

"In the most important ways we have never been born

and we shall never die--we wrap ourselves in
          time-laden days and fashion paths on which we
          ourselves sometimes get lost, having forgotten that  
          time is an extension of our experience--a  
          creation which Life, God if you will, privileges us  
          to fashion in order to know Itself, more fully, even  
          as us, in time-laden experiences which we in our  
          innocence call days--in the most important ways  
          we have never been born and we shall never die."  

Thomas M. Scott, Th. D.               September 26, 1998


Scheme A X BXXXXBCAX C
Poetic Form
Metre 0010101 0010101111011 011101110010 11010101111 0010111100101 11101011001000 0101111111001 110010110111010 1101100100011010 100110010101 111011011101 1011111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 759
Words 102
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 9, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on September 26, 1998

Submitted by TMScott on July 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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