Analysis of A Creed
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
COURAGE to ask of love neither sign nor token,
Wisdom to wait, silence and faith are better;
Fear, not alone lest the bond be some day broken,
But, that love, too desperately dear, become a fetter.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101111101110 10111001110 110110111110 11111000101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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