Analysis of Common Threads
Collective self-consciousness,
the well where I draw
old voices and struggles
lie deep in its craw
What’s shared but unstated,
reflexively pawned
to borrow ungiven
the right to what’s wrong
Collective self-consciousness,
polarity’s friend
unspoken meridian
between fact and pretend
To wait in the memory
of what’s yet to come
released by the moment
—humanity won
(The New Room: February, 2022)
Scheme | AbxbxxcxAdcdexxc e |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100 01111 110010 11011 011010 01001 111 01101 0101100 11 0100100 011001 1100100 10111 011010 01001 011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 404 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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