Analysis of know



as space unfolds like a horizon blooming
into the medlam ochre, a discreet
array of pifoned happenings and stances-yet-to-come
a derivative, not a derogative-
and i am engulfed by the sudden realization
that life is fragile.
it is a petite renoir
an egg shell dream
a copious bounty
a merryweather adventure.
it is a drifting sand
a barbel dropped too close
an immediate action
and a delayed provision.
life is a wanderlusty thing.
space opens up like a sheldon on a cafne
a pierrion glass chiming in the windy breeze
it is a winter's song
and a summer's wait
the exultation that the morose
is, too, not even what it seems.
paramount. life is paramount.
it is deep like a veranda
and a chill of tea
an old war story
and a rusty nail.
a courteously wrought medallion
sitting in a box
it is "unthunken" like whiskey on the rocks.
every constellation calls my name
and past viewing them, i am never the same again.
i am driven to a point of knowing.
i am driven to a point of knowing.
and it is wayward like grass
sinking into the bone of feet.
o, this imperial gnosticism.


Scheme abcdefghijkleeaemnolpqriisettuvAAwbc
Poetic Form
Metre 11011001010 010110001 0111100010111 00100101 0110110101010 11110 1100101 1111 010010 01010 110101 01111 1010010 0001010 11011 11011010101 011100101 110101 00101 011001 11110111 101110 11110010 00111 11110 00101 011010 10001 111110101 100010111 0110111100101 1110101110 1110101110 0111011 10010111 110100100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,045
Words 198
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 36
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 854
Words per stanza (avg) 197

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Written on July 07, 2021

Submitted by bhgodby on July 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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B.H. Godby

I studied English at Princeton University, as well as classics and humanistic studies. more…

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