Analysis of A Certain Man
Jean Toomer 1894 (Washington, D.C.) – 1967 (Doylestown)
A certain man wishes to be a prince
Of this earth; he also wants to be
A saint and master of the being-world.
Conscience cannot exist in the first:
The second cannot exist without conscience.
Therefore he, who has enough conscience
To be disturbed but not enough to be
Compelled, can neither reject the one
Nor follow the other...
| Scheme | ABCDEEBFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 0101101101 111110111 0101010101 101001001 01010010110 11110110 1101110111 011100101 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 262 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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