Analysis of Baptizing The Vacuum
What is the substance
of nothingness
With nothingness the substance
of thought
Where is the truth
in indifference
Apathetically frozen
when taught
How then to measure
reluctance
With action the villain
of time
Seeking to baptize
the vacuum
Where consonants hide
—from the rhyme
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2023)
| Scheme | AX AB XA CB XA CD XX XD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 1100 1100010 11 1101 00100 110 11 11110 010 110010 11 10101 010 11001 101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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