Analysis of Drug

Vincent St. Clare 1991 (Austin, Texas)



(I would step outside before looking in)

In the end you will find
Only the witness as he stands

Open, bare to the world
Among it, of it, a part

And the whole of each and every


Scheme X XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101100 001111 10010111 101101 0111101 001110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 178
Words 40
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 9

About this poem

Glimpsing something beyond truth and falsehood.

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Written on 2011

Submitted by VincentSt.Clare on January 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Vincent St. Clare

Vincent St. Clare is a poet and essayist from suburban New England. He lives an incredibly boring life. more…

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