Analysis of Nothing



You cannot think of Nothing,

Without thinking of something.

You cannot comprehend,

No beginning and no end.

For Nothing always never was,
The absence of existence.

Our u n i v e r s e expands.

Into what?
Because Nothing is never enough.

Before the cosmos was created,
There was no vast and empty space,
Still and waiting to be filled.

For there was no space,
As there was no thing.

No atoms and no strings,
No matter and no meaning,
No line of time endlessly streaming,
Nor God, conscious and thinking.

Nothing is best described,
As written on the following line:


Scheme A A B B XX X XX XCX CA XAAA XX
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101110 0110110 11001 1010011 1101101 0101010 101111111101 011 011011001 010101010 11110101 1010111 11111 11111 110011 1100110 111110010 1110010 101101 110101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 551
Words 103
Sentences 10
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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B. M. Stroud

I am a writer/theatre director from Mentor, Ohio who creates formless, experimental work; each project might be radically different from what has gone before it. My prime aim is to create work which feeds the imaginations of young people and gives them a memorable reading experience. I am interested in developing a series of the most simplistic books for children aged 4 and older, rooted in the abstract, philosophical and existential.My Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001420675472 more…

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