Analysis of It's hard to imagine nothing
It's hard to imagine Nothing:
No breadth,
no length,
no depth,
no height.
No time,
no space,
no life,
no light.
No atoms,
no sun,
no moon,
no stars.
No Saturn,
no Jupiter,
no Earth,
no Mars.
Zilch,
zero,
nought,
nil,
and nowt.
So how did it all happen, how did this Universe come about?
Let's go back to the beginning before time had begun
and stand in the presence of God the Eternal One.
Time and space have no meaning in this spiritual world
but watch now, as our Universe is unfurled
Back at the beginning God said "Let there be,"
and out of nothing made the universe that we see.
The timeless "Eternal Now" had been broken
as these creative words by God were spoken.
With a mighty bang the universe exploded,
as each photon with God's power was loaded
it travelled forward at such a colossal pace
transforming the unformed regions of space.
From this first moment, time started to tick away
and the minutes and hours became the first day.
The curvature of space was being transformed
and out of nothing the universe was formed.
Sub atomic particles entered onto to the scene.
Then atoms and molecules could be seen.
In its infancy the universe began to grow
and it filled the emptiness as it did so.
The universe had become the dwelling place
for all of the stars and galaxies existing in space.
It continued expanding and as time moved on,
into virgin territory with its new creation.
Then one day upon a speck of cosmic dust called Earth
the species of Homo sapiens had its birth.
Today, many aeons later, they look up at the sky
and ask searching questions such as "How" and "Why?"
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Metre | 11101010 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 110 11 11 11 110 1100 11 11 1 10 1 1 01 111111011110101 11110010011101 0100101100101 10111100110001 11111010101 11001011111 011101010111 01001011110 11010111010 10101010010 1111110110 110101100101 0100011011 111101101101 001001001011 01001111001 0111001011 10101001010101 110010111 011000100111 01101001111 0101010101 11101010001001 101001001111 0110100111010 1110101110111 010110100111 0110110111101 01101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,649 |
Words | 299 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 51 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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