Analysis of The Search
The deeper we get into
the idea of what’s real,
the further away we become
Trying to put our formulas
into a box,
is folly zero sum
Like the horizon before you
that you see but can’t touch,
the truth forever disguised
Its costume to change
with every reason we claim
—only the search bringing meaning to the wise
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Scheme | AXB XXB AXX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 0010101 01001101 101110100 0101 110101 10010011 111111 0101001 10111 11001011 10011010101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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