Analysis of Mine and Thine
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
Two words about the world we see,
And nought but Mine and Thine they be.
Ah! might we drive them forth and wide
With us should rest and peace abide;
All free, nought owned of goods and gear,
By men and women though it were
Common to all all wheat and wine
Over the seas and up the Rhine.
No manslayer then the wide world o'er
When Mine and Thine are known no more.
Yea, God, well counselled for our health,
Gave all this fleeting earthly wealth
A common heritage to all,
That men might feed them therewithal,
And clothe their limbs and shoe their feet
And live a simple life and sweet.
But now so rageth greediness
That each desireth nothing less
Than all the world, and all his own,
And all for him and him alone.
Scheme | AABBXCDDCX EEFFGGAXHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010111 01110111 11111101 11110101 11111101 11010110 10111101 10010101 11101110 11011111 11111101 11110101 01010011 111111 01110111 01010101 11111 111101 11010111 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 722 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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