Analysis of Men Say They Know Many Things
Henry David Thoreau 1817 (Concord) – 1862 (Concord)
Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, —
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 1111101 1111101 010100 00100100 0111 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 166 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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