Analysis of Never The Lessernesses



i saw it with
my own
essence
among the
frequencies

a hole in the atmosphere
a blank spot a void
a less than nothingness
so great
neither positive nor
negative it was null
self-nullificated not even zero
undefined by science
yet there it was all full of
zeal and non-energy and lacking
wonder

approached on the
biorhythmic asphalt by other
hole
blank void less than zeroness
protons neutrons all
other trons twitch
wriggle
shake with furious nothingness
ecstatically

enthusiatically
who cannot see less than
void
wager bitcoins and sirloins
blood and souls
but never their own always
of their children or
next-door
next-to-nothingnesses

each hole has a mirror
a vanity with which to do
battle
each holds its vanity
its mirror up for
the other nothingness
to reveal to the other
nothingness its nothingness
nothingness vs nothingness
nothing happens
nothingness goes on
and so does
nothingness

glare of light from beyond
nothing
reflects from each
nothingness mirror vanity
blinds the other nothingnesses
into believing they are really
somethingnesses
in light
nothingness illusions
vanities mirroring each other

blank spots pretending
to be light grew
crowds mobs even
and each void each blank spot
became more powerful growing into behemoth nothingnesses
glaring

from mirrors not
light
mirrors
vanities blind

© John Kennan 6-11-20


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111 11 10 010 100 010010 01101 011100 11 101001 100111 1111010 01110 1111111 101100010 10 0110 11110 1 11111 111 1011 10 11100100 0100 1 110111 1 10101 101 110111 11101 11 111 111010 01001111 10 111100 11011 010100 1011010 1001100 10010100 1010 10011 011 100 111101 10 0111 10010100 10101 010101110 1 01 100010 100100110 11010 1111 1110 011111 01110010010101 10 1101 1 10 1001 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,278
Words 211
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 5, 11, 9, 9, 13, 10, 6, 4, 1
Lines Amount 68
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by rankstranger7 on May 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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