Analysis of Imagination
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Imagination plays me most intolerable tricks.
To enumerate them all would be unbearably prolix.
Just a trifle bids them gather and a trifle bids them go.
And they tease me and torment me more than anyone can know.
Tricks of strange, disordered action, tricks of strange disordered thought.
Tricks of seeking explanations most unprofitably sought.
But my will is learning daily, when the creatures growl and leap,
That a stern voice and a stinging lash will drive them back to sleep.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0010111010001 1010111101001 101011100010111 0111011111011 111010101110101 1110010111 111110101010101 101100101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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