Analysis of The Mind's Liberty
William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
The mind, with its own eyes and ears,
May for these others have no care;
No matter where this body is,
The mind is free to go elsewhere.
My mind can be a sailor, when
This body's still confined to land;
And turn these mortals into trees,
That walk in Fleet Street or the Strand.
So, when I'm passing Charing Cross,
Where porters work both night and day,
I ofttimes hear sweet Malpas Brook,
That flows thrice fifty miles away.
And when I'm passing near St Paul's
I see beyond the dome and crowd,
Twm Barlum, that green pap in Gwent,
With its dark nipple in a cloud.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 11110111 11011101 0111111 11110101 11010111 01110011 11011101 1111011 11011101 111111 11110101 01110111 11010101 1111101 11110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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