Analysis of The Only Thing We Trust
Are space and time much too similar,
and maybe in the end exactly the same
Our angle of perception the only difference,
keeping them separate and dually named
If they are distinct where is their departure,
does its sensing begin and end with us
Or is all we see just darker matter,
and in verse—the only thing we trust
(Wayne Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
| Scheme | AX XX AX AX X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111100 01000101001 10101010010100 10110011 11101111010 1110010111 1111111010 001010111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 354 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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