Analysis of The True Liberal
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
The truest Liberal is he
Who sees the man in each degree,
Who merit in a churl can prize,
And baseness in an earl despise,
Yet censures baseness in a churl,
And dares find merit in an earl.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 01010011 11010101 11000111 0101101 111001 01110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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