Analysis of Aristotle’s corpus



our education very rarely taught us
anything of Aristotle’s corpus

logic was the aim of the Organon
a polymathic plane to find order in

Socrates of Athens
began, the western creed  
by taking on the best
attest, to supersede

the genesis of Plato was sparked
by Socrates

Plato burned his poems and strived
for expertise

where his prose was silver Aristotle’s was of gold
let all the disquisitions one finds difference in; unfold
in modern days I look to sycophants who’ve been cajoled
by ignorant, but eloquent, conclusions that we’ve sold

the lexicon of noble men
well studied, higher grade

it’s humorous to see now how
societies decayed

so I can’t help belittle every
ace and accolade

comparing bones so brittle
to the greatest ever made.


Scheme AA BB XCXC XD CD EEEE BF XF XF XF
Poetic Form
Metre 10010101011 101110 10101101 01111100 10110 010101 110101 01101 010011011 110 10111001 101 1111101111 110111100001 010111111101 11001100010111 0101101 110101 11001111 010001 1111010100 1010 0101110 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 769
Words 145
Sentences 2
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 60
Words per stanza (avg) 13

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an ode to the great founders of philosophy.

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Submitted by on January 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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