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 |
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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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