Analysis of To A Bigot
George Essex Evans 1863 (London) – 1909 (Toowoomba)
Here am I sent a wanderer like to thee,
And here a moment ere the night I stand.
The twin eternities—Has Been, Shall Be—
Gird me on either hand.
My joy or grief—the flicker of a wing
Of some brief insect in the blinding glow!
One moment down the wind my voice shall ring.
This, and no more, I know.
My soul went out amid the ways of men,
By land and sea, and to the stars o’erhead.
I deemed it lost when it came back again.
“Is there a God?” I said.
“Thou fool,” it answered, “all are truly kin.
God is the Soul of all—no power apart.
God is the spark Divine that glows within
The Temple of the Heart.”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100111 0101010111 0111111 111101 1111010101 111100101 1101011111 101111 1111010111 110101011 1111111101 110111 1111011101 11011111001 1101011101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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