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 |
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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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