Analysis of Faith
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
A wall
Gray and tall,
And a sky of gray,
And a twilight cold;
And that is all
That my eyes behold.
But I know that unseen,
Beyond the wall,
On a lawn of green
White blossoms fall
In the waning light;
And beyond the lawn
Curtains are drawn
From windows bright.
And within she moves with her gracious hands
And the heart that loves and that understands,
Waiting to succour poor souls in need,
And to bind with her blessing the hearts that bleed.
I know it all, though I cannot see;
But the tired-out tramp,
Dirty and ill,
In the evening's damp,
In the Spring's clean chill,
Knows not that there
Is the heart to care
For such as I and for such as he.
He slouches along, and sees alone
The gray of the sky and the gray of the stone.
Lord, when my eyes see nothing but grey
In all Thy world that is now so green,
I will bethink me of this spring day
And the house of welcome, known yet unseen;
The wall that conceals
And the faith that reveals.
Scheme | AABCACDADAEFFEGGHH IJKJKLLIMM BDBDNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 101 00111 0011 0111 11101 111101 0101 10111 1101 00101 00101 1011 1101 0011110101 001110101 10111101 01110100111 111111101 101011 1001 00101 00111 1111 10111 111101111 110010101 01101001101 111111011 011111111 11111111 0011101101 01101 001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 914 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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