Analysis of Thought
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Thought, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas
I despise that self-important game.
Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness,
Thought is the testing of statements on the touchstone of consciousness,
Thought is gazing onto the face of life, and reading what can be read,
Thought is pondering over experience, and coming to conclusion.
Thought is not a trick, or an exercise, or a set of dodges,
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
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Metre | 1111 1101000101010010010 101110101 110101101101100 110101101011100 11101001110101111 111001001000101010 111011110101110 1101011010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 404 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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