Analysis of Grasp no thoughts

Michael Lester 1987 (Dundee)

Grasp no thoughts
Seek no certainty
Let go
Live free

Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 111 11100 11 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 52
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Michael Lester

Self-published author of Divine Rhyme, Poetry for Men, Who am I?, Who are You?, Perspective: Living the Dream, and Mentation & Meditation. more…

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