Analysis of I Find No Peace
David McKee Wright 1869 – 1928
I find no peace, and all my war is done.
I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.
I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have, and all the world I season.
That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison
And holdeth me not-yet can I scape no wise-
Nor letteth me live nor die at my device,
And yet of death it giveth me occasion.
Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain.
I desire to perish, and yet I ask health.
I love another, and thus I hate myself.
I feed me in sorrow and laugh in all my pain;
Likewise displeaseth me both life and death,
And my delight is causer of this strife.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011111 1101110111 110101111101 01110101110 111111010 0111111111 1111111101 01111101010 01111001111 101011001111 1101001111 111010010111 1111101 0101110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 603 |
| Words | 128 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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