Analysis of The Power To Choose
The mind
its own place
be it heaven
or hell
The soul
but a bucket
to empty
or fill
Goya
a madman
DaVinci
extolled
Sharing
a genius
they fought
to control
Bleed out
the poison
death waits
to reclaim
Or memory
gets buried
and darkness
— remains
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
| Scheme | XXAX BXCX XXCX XDXB XAXX CXDX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (76%) |
| Metre | 01 111 1110 11 01 1010 110 11 10 01 01 01 10 010 11 101 11 010 11 101 1100 110 010 01 11 |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 8 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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