Analysis of Thoughts on the Cosmos
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
I do not hold with him who thinks
The world is jonahed by a jinx;
That everything is sad and sour,
And life a withered hothouse flower.
I hate the Polyanna pest
Who says that All Is for the Best,
And hold in high, unhidden scorn
Who sees the Rose, nor feels the Thorn.
I do not like extremists who
Are like the pair in (I) and (II);
But how I hate the wabbly gink,
Like me, who knows not what to think!
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111111 0111101 11011010 01010110 11011 11111101 010111 11011101 11110101 11010101 1111011 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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