Analysis of Barbarians.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
As the crinoid star-fish to the sea-base
By his stem fixed draws bare subsistence in
His straitened sphere, as in the sunless ooze
He turns on his long jointed pedicle,
So are half-bruted men, barbarian-brained,
Endued with scarce more power to see and hear
The visions and the rumours of the world,
So poorly apt to think and feel and know,
As each turns on his dark time-pivot in
A universal ignorance, as it were
Far back in the beginning of the world;
Disjointed and dismembered in the mind,
And in the spirit so confused and foul,
With no sign of truth's authenticity,
As nature in their origin had jarred
The primal tone of man.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBIGJDKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111011 1111110100 11110011 11111101 1111101001 01111101101 010000101 1101110101 1111111100 0010100110 1100010101 0100010001 0001010101 111110100 1100110011 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 502 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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