Analysis of The Physics Of Poetry
Robots reason
people think
in counterfactual oxymorons
The equal sign
ironic still
in anti-literal contradiction
A=B
B=C
but D won’t link without reflection
Zero-Sum
with nothing totaled
nondescript—the grand ligation
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: May, 2022)
| Scheme | AXX XXA BBA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 101 011 0101 0101 010100010 01 11 111101010 101 11010 10101010 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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