Analysis of The Common Confession
Who I am, Lord is a good man and a bad man –
More rank than I can know, or care to know
But better too than I believe –
So equal in the elements
Concerning flesh and Thee
That I am both or I am neither.
| Scheme | XX X XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110110011 1111111111 11011101 11000100 010101 111111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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