Analysis of A Lesson In Humility
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
'Tis time, my soul, thou shouldst be purged of pride.
What men are these with thee, whose ill deeds done
Make thee thus shrink from them and be denied?
They are but as thou art, each mother's son
A convict in transgression. Here is one,
Sayest thou, who struck his fellow and he died.
And yet he weeps hot tears. Do thy tears run?
This other thieved, yet clasps Christ crucified.
Where is thy greater virtue? Thinkest thou sin
Is but crime's record on the judgment seat?
Or must thou wait for death to be bowed down?
Oh for a righteous reading which should join
Thy deeds together in an accusing sheet,
And leave thee if thou couldst, to face men's frown!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 1111111111 1111110101 1111111101 0100010111 1111110011 0111111111 110111110 1111010111 1110110101 1111111111 1101010111 11010010101 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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