Analysis of The Way of TAO is The Way of Spirit
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
I think of TAO.
Its essence leaves me awestruck.
The WAY of SPIRIT.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1111 110111 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 67 |
| Words | 15 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
As it is written of TAO in Chapter One of TAO TEH CHING, “Calling it ‘fathomless’ is still not to fathom it….the door to a cluster of puzzles.”
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Written on February 10, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 10, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on April 25, 2023
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