Analysis of Thoughts
What kind of thoughts now, do you carry
In your travels day by day
Are they bright and lofty visions,
Or neglected, gone astray?
Matters not how great in fancy,
Or what deeds of skill you’ve wrought;
Man, though high may be his station,
Is no better than his thoughts.
Catch your thoughts and hold them tightly,
Let each one an honor be;
Purge them, scourge them, burnish brightly,
Then in love set each one free.
Scheme | ABXB AXXX AAAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111111110 0110111 11101010 1010101 10111010 1111111 11111110 1110111 11101110 1111101 11111010 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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