Analysis of The Good Shepherd With The Kid
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
_He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save._
So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side
Of that unpitying Phrygian Sect which cried:
'Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave,
Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave.'--
So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed,
The infant Church! of love she felt the tide
Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave.
And then she smiled; and in the Catacombs,
With eye suffused but heart inspired true,
On those walls subterranean, where she hid
Her head in ignominy, death, and tombs,
She her good Shepherd's hasty image drew--
And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 11110101 111100111 1111110101 1111100101 11011111 0101111101 1101011101 011100010 1101110101 11100100111 010100101 1011010101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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