Analysis of 1 + 1 = 1
Superpositioned,
truth here and truth there
Unmeasured duality,
a mirror contraire
Whose message lies distant,
whose message lies near
A Siamese phantom,
both fronts facing rear
The sublime contradiction,
one plus one equals one
Their natures poetic
—each truth zero sum
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Scheme | AB AB AC DC EE XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11011 10100 0101 110110 11011 00110 11101 001010 111101 110010 11101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 311 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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