Analysis of The Elusive Ghost
Can you be conscious
without being self conscious,
philosophers disagree
Being aware of your
awareness,
seems logical to me
But logic has its
failings,
as we pierce the inner mind
Perception,
the most elusive ghost
—and hardest to define
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | AAB XAB XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 0110110 0100001 100111 010 110011 11011 10 1110101 010 010101 010101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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