Analysis of A Sense of Humor
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
No man should stand before the moon
To make sweet song thereon,
With dandified importance,
His sense of humor gone.
Nay, let us don the motley cap,
The jester's chastened mien,
If we would woo that looking-glass
And see what should be seen.
O mirror on fair Heaven's wall,
We find there what we bring.
So, let us smile in honest part
And deck our souls and sing.
Yea, by the chastened jest alone
Will ghosts and terrors pass,
And fays, or suchlike friendly things,
Throw kisses through the glass.
Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDXD XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 111101 11010 111101 11110101 010101 11111101 011111 11011101 111111 11110101 0110101 11010101 110101 0111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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