Analysis of The Language of Math
My teacher told me math was a language understood by all,
a universal vernacular with potential large and small.
So I wrote my heart’s desire a note set in polynomial design,
knowing that for sure the note would make her mine.
I wrote my terms so beautifully to make her weak in the knees,
exponential feelings, the only variable - her love for me.
I gave my girl the note, her reaction was rather crass,
She laughed in my face and showed the rest of the class.
Now I am alone, my social life is dead.
A formula meant for love created a long division instead.
My polynomials did not function, even though I did them right.
I was foiled by mathematics and left to cry at night.
As for math being a language, there is one thing I am sure of –
Math must be the devil’s language for in math there is no love.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110100111 001001001010101 11111010011010001 10111011101 111111001101001 0101001010000111 11110100101101 110110101101 11101110111 01001110100101001 1111101011111 1111010011111 1111001011111111 111010101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 812 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 627 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
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