Analysis of An Empty Reference
Are all notions of time a trap…
The perpetual present
The greatest one of all
Are all capsules of existence
Just graves we dig for ourselves
Each shovel full of denial
Burying us deep
—within an empty reference
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
Scheme | XXXAXXXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 0010010 010111 11101010 11111001 11011010 10011 01110100 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 251 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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