Analysis of Behind The Curtain
Is something unphysical
in charge of this world
That lines every moment,
unseen and unfurled
Scientists say NO,
breathing fire as they shout
What is it then
that scatters atoms about
Darwin had his theory,
well accepted—unproved
That things change themselves
on condition and mood
But somewhere deep
in the backs of our minds
A notion lay hidden,
firmly placed to remind
This proof we so revel in,
whose truth we revere
Has constantly changed
since the dinosaurs were here
So try to stay open
as new data evolves
Remembering the axioms
it now must resolve
And tune in to something,
not burdened by facts
The rock of all ages
—still blindly intact
(Radnor Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX XX XX CX XX XX CX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 01111 1110010 01001 10011 1010111 1111 111001 101110 101001 11101 101001 111 0011101 010110 101101 1111100 11101 11001 101001 111110 111001 01000100 11101 010110 11011 011110 11001 10010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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