Analysis of A Spirit Passed Before Me [From Job]
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
A spirit passed before me: I beheld
The face of immortality unveiled--
Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine--
And there it stood,--all formless--but divine:
Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake;
And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake:
'Is man more just than God? Is man more pure
Than He who deems even Seraphs insecure?
Creatures of clay--vain dwellers in the dust!
The moth survives you, and are ye more just?
Things of a day! you wither ere the night,
Heedless and blind to Wisdom's wasted light!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101111 011010001 11111100111 011111101 0111010111 0111110111 1111111111 1111101100 1011110001 0101101111 1101110101 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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