Analysis of Grey Matter
The philosophy
of language
its essence
rephrased
The alpha
and beta
unknown
without names
All dialects
freeing
the sound
of the ink
Without words
and their meaning
could
— we ever think
(Villanova University: April, 2024)
| Scheme | XXXA XAXX XBAC XBAC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00100 110 110 1 010 010 01 011 110 10 01 101 011 0110 1 1101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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