Analysis of Are you searching
James Allen 1864 (Leicester) – 1912 (Ilfracombe)
Are you searching for the happiness that does not fade away?
Are you looking for the joy that lives, and leaves no grievous day?
Are you panting for the waterbrooks of Love, and Life, and Peace?
Then let all dark desires depart, and selfish seeking cease.
Are you ling’ring in the paths of pain, grief-haunted, stricken sore ?
Are you wand’ring in the ways that wound your weary feet the more ?
Are you sighing for the Resting-Place where tears and sorrows cease ?
Then sacrifice the heart of self, and find the Heart of Peace.
| Scheme | AABB CCBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111010100111101 111010111011101 1110101110101 111101001010101 11100111110101 11100111110101 111010101110101 1100111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 532 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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