Analysis of since feeling is first
Edward Estlin Cummings 1894 (Cambridge, Massachusetts) – 1962 (Madison, New Hampshire)
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 1110010 10111 1101011 101101 111001 1101 0101101 110 1011111011 0110111111 111011 1111101 1101011 111010 0111110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 6, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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