Analysis of Think No More, Lad
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:
Why should men make haste to die?
Empty heads and tongues a-talking
Make the rough road easy walking,
And the feather pate of folly
Bears the falling sky.
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
Spins the heavy world around.
If young hearts were not so clever,
Oh, they would be young for ever:
Think no more; 'tis only thinking
Lays lads underground.
| Scheme | ABCCAB CDEECD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111110 1111111 10101010 10111010 00101110 10101 1111010 1010101 11101110 11111110 11111010 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 392 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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