Analysis of I Used to Think
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
I used to think
The mind essential in the body, even
As stood the body essential in the mind:
Two inseparable things, by nature equal
And similar, and in creation's song
Halving the total scale: it is not so.
Unlike and cross like driftwood sticks they come
Churned in the giddy trough: a chunk of pine,
A slab of rosewood: mangled each on each
With knocks and friction, or in deadly pain
Sheathing each other's splinters: till at last
Without all stuff or shape they 're jetted up
Where in the bluish moisture rot whate'er
Was vomited in horror from the sea.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMN |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 01010001010 11010010001 101000111010 01000011 1001011111 010111111 1001010111 011110111 1101010101 101101111 01111111101 1001010110 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 557 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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