Analysis of Shadow And Substance
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
What have we lost with our lost Heaven and Hell?
Have sacred faith and worship come to naught?
Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Is it not still a thing ineffable,
Beyond what mind can grasp or tongue may tell —
Beyond all mystery by sages taught,
All greatest wonders by Messiah wrought —
The one first, last, divinest miracle!
Let selfish hopes, with old myths, pass away.
Though creeds must go, the God of all remains,
And more and more His might upholds and awes.
Revealed in Nature's universal laws;
And more and more true love its crown attains,
And our good world grows better day by day.
| Scheme | ABBCABBC DEEXED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011001 1101010111 1111110101 1111010100 0111111111 0111001101 1101010101 01111100 1101111101 1111011101 0101110101 010100101 0101111101 01011110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 604 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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