Analysis of Calling Us Inward
The logic of life…
illogically pure
In search of itself,
last problem to cure
Synapses relapse,
science reclaims
The form with the formula,
washed down the drain
Structural weakness,
obsolescence defined
The clocks after midnight,
forever to chime
With finality’s ink,
used falsely to stamp
The rug underneath us,
pulled out in a rant
Our nature found larcenous,
truth we must steal
To claim for ourselves,
what our lies deem as real
While eternity listens
to this comedy play out
The light calling us inward
—past reason and doubt
(Strafford Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA BB XX CX XX XX CX CD XD XE XE X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
| Metre | 01011 11 01101 11011 10001 101 0110100 1101 10010 01001 01101 01011 111 11011 01011 11001 10101100 1111 111001 1101111 1010010 1110011 0110110 11001 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 574 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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