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.”


Scheme ABABCDCD EBEX FGFG
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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George Essex Evans

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