Analysis of A Losing Game
If lights great speed
is but a myth
And darkness not empty
as it seems
What’s true then false,
what’s false conscripts
Our need to know
—a cursed dream
Has discovery
made us better
Have our souls
or spirits changed
As logic brags
with ethics blurred
To win
—a losing game
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
| Scheme | XX AX XX XX AX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1101 010110 111 0111 0110 10111 011 10100 1110 1101 1101 1101 1101 11 0101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 319 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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