Analysis of Thought.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
How mystical is thought! We do but think,
Be it of heaven or hell, and we are there!
Such feet has phantasy, more fleet than light,
We flash ourselves away where'er we will,
And in a wink return we know not how.
It is our Genius haply makes it all —
The vision of the things we seem to see,
Which yet are not, or were not, had we not
The miracle of thought within us still,
Like Love's begetting, making all things new,
And still unmaking all we have done with;
So with creative joy as in a dream
Folding us in ourselves, as if it were,
Who are still one with all that we have made,
Revisioning the mystic entities
As each one reads as with undying eyes
The hyacinthine wonder of the soul,
As if alone in an enchanted isle
On the meridian of his own desire.
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Metre | 1100111111 11110110111 11111111 11001011011 0001011111 1110101111 0101011111 1111101111 0100110111 1101010111 01111111 1101011001 10100011110 1111111111 1010100 1111110101 0110101 1101010101 100100111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 585 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 150 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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