Analysis of Bipolar
The name means two poles.
North and south?
Which end is up?
Two poles.
One tall, thin, and trembling,
On which I must balance,
Twirling like a plate on a stick.
From up here, I can see everything I want,
So high that I have to look down through clouds.
But I am afraid of heights.
The other pole is short, thick, comforting.
It has a broad base, sturdy.
The weight of the world rests upon it.
From under it, I see nothing,
Just the warm, dark earth.
There must be a place in the middle,
Not scary and high,
Not low enough to be buried.
I can't rember the middle any more,
But it must be there. It must be.
Scheme | ABCADEFGHIDJKDLMNOPJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 01111 101 1111 11 1110100 111110 10101101 1111111011 1111111111 1110111 0101111100 1101110 011011011 11011110 10111 111010010 11001 11011110 111010101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 455 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on March 24, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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