Analysis of "No Man Is An Island"
You speak to my spirit with logic,
I answer your mind from my soul
With words in two disparate languages,
our discourse to never be whole
Your left hemisphere sealed in a vacuum,
when my right hemisphere comes to call
Though Donne said, “No Man Is An Island”
—you’re marooned there adrift toward the falls
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110110 11011111 1101100100 101011011 111010010 11110111 111111110 1011010101 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 28, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 28, 2020
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