Analysis of Nothingness
Keith Lankford 1964 (AL)
I am nothing
Smaller then the smallest grain of sand
Resting at the bottom
Of the lowest valley on Earth
Gazing out into the infinite Universe above me
Welcoming a coming deluge
As I seek a flood of love and knowledge
Cascading from the mountainous heights
Flowing swiftly with much force
As it fills the valley in which I lay
Drowning me
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 101010111 101010 10101011 10101010010011 10001010 1110111010 010101001 1010111 1110100111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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