Analysis of A False Infinity
Is your memory a circle,
or a trip straight out and back
A beginning and an ending,
or one continuous track
Do you see the same things going up,
that you pass when coming down
Is retention sealed and programmed,
by things going round and round
Without an ending where you stop,
or perhaps just one last verse
You rewind backwards to square one,
the past again rehearsed
This flux of motion holds you tight,
your perception never free
Serving both to mislead and to lie
—in a false infinity
(Seattle Washington: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX XX XX XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100010 1011101 00100110 1101001 111011101 1111101 1010101 1110101 01110111 1011111 11010111 010101 11110111 1010101 101101011 0010100 0101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 509 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 11, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 12, 2019
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