Analysis of The Soul Forsaken
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
Head-bowed I stood before the Gates of
God,
And pleaded starvingly;
The Great Eye would not see;
And cold with hopeless tears again I trod
The dreaded vast.
I felt the souls immortal moving past
All singingly.
Oh, pity me! Oh, pity me!
Wandering eternally!
I moved among Olympic ways amoan,
And looked with searching eye
Upon the mournful sky.
I lay and wept before the crumbled throne
Of Jove the dead.
I heard the soundless twilight, and I fled
With hopeless sign.
Oh, pity me! Oh, pity me!
Wandering eternally!
I strayed from peak to peak; from star to star:
And roamed in search of grace
Amid the field of space;
I craved at barren pagan shrines of far
Antiquity:
But mouths were mute, and eyes refused to see
The asking face.
Oh, pity me! Oh, pity me!
Wandering eternally!
I lay abreast above the chasm of Hell,
And claimed my destiny
Amid it demonry.
In vain I shrieked for entrance at the well
Of Sin.
I heard the Sobs and Sorrows rushing in
All moaningly.
Oh, pity me! Oh, pity me!
Wandering eternally.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101011 1 0101 011111 0111010111 0101 1101010101 11 11011101 1000100 110101011 011101 010101 1101010101 1101 11011011 1101 11011101 1000100 1111111111 010111 010111 1111010111 0100 1101010111 0101 11011101 1000100 11010101011 011100 0111 0111110101 11 1101010100 11 11011101 1000100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 983 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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