Analysis of There's A Moon Inside My Body
THE moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.
So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.
Scheme | ABA XBXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011011111011 01101101101 0111010011001111111011 1111110100111111 1111010011110110111 11111011010110 111111101 0101101101101010 0110011111101011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 51 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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