Analysis of Optimist
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
Kill off mankind,
And give the Earth a chance!
Nature might find
In her inheritance
The seedlings of a race
Less infinitely base.
| Scheme | ABACDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 010101 1011 000100 010101 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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