Analysis of The Waster's Presentiment
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
I shall be spun. There is a voice within
Which tells me plainly I am all undone;
For though I toil not, neither do I spin,
I shall be spun.
April approaches. I have not begun
Schwegler or Mackintosh, nor will begin
Those lucid works till April 21.
So my degree I do not hope to win,
For not by ways like mine degrees are won;
And though, to please my uncle, I go in,
I shall be spun.
Scheme | abaB bax abaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1111011101 1111110111 1111 1001011101 1001101101 1101110 1101111111 1111110111 0111110110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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