Analysis of Strange Gods
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
THE great religions, like men great of mind,
Draw to them even those of hostile view.
Many a barbarian in Athens knew
The temple porches who was grossly blind
To any god save one long left behind -
Some hideous idol on a mountain blue,
For whom his heart ached, timorous and true,
And, lonely in the Parthenon, repined.
But home returning over difficult seas
To his own people, had he no regret?
No envy for those Greeks who bent their knees
Only where beauty and religion met?
Could he forget the temple and the trees?
Could he the grey-eyed Pallas so forget?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011111 1111011101 10001000101 0101011101 1101111101 11001010101 1111110001 01000101 11010101001 1111011101 1101111111 1011000101 1101010001 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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