Analysis of Only Man Knows
Without there being
A God
I could never question
His existence
Through the power of
The question
Divinity shines
Do birds question?
Do apes question?
Do flowers question?
Only man questions…
—and only man knows why
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
| Scheme | XXAXXAXAAAXB B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 01 111010 1010 10101 010 01001 1110 1110 11010 10110 010111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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