Analysis of Nothing Stays
Mark Van Doren 1894 (Vermilion County) – 1972 (Torrington)
Nothing stays
not even change,
That can grow tired
of it's own name;
The very thought
too much for it.
Somewhere in air
a stillness is,
So far, so thin-
But let it alone.
Whoever we are
it is not for us
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 1101 11110 1111 0101 1111 101 0101 1111 11101 01011 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 201 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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