Analysis of Magical thinking, the fantastical american mind
gregg connolly 1956 (pennsylvania)
Magical thinking, the fantastical american mind
“The charm of anticipated success”, everything accepted with a “bated breathe”,
The revival meeting is a fluffy huffy guff, oh boy that snake oil is really good stuff
Wandering and wondering among the bounty, he will build my own empire, have his own county,
Dreaming the fantasy that tickles his fancy, the dream will come true, it is not even chancy
Everyman is a castle, or he believes that it is so, he’ll make good on his aspiration or keep it in tow
As tocqueville and others pointed out long ago, america and magical thinking are apropos
| Scheme | X X X A A B B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100100101001 0110100011001010101 00101010101011111111011 1000100010101111110011110 100100110110011111111010 1001010110111111111101011101 1100101011010100010010101 |
| Characters | 611 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 68 |
| Words per line (avg) | 15 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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i was going to be a rock star, then it was an ira bomber, then, ajet fighter pilot.........
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