Analysis of The Formless Question
Is beauty connected,
or to a vacuum condemned
Is truth then required,
for it to enter within
Can beauty be measured,
by the heart or the mind
Can it chase, or displace, or replace
what it finds
If beauty is truth,
let all reason be shown
Why judgment and logic,
to our hearts stay unknown
As semantics untangle,
and the linguists all kneel
The question stays formless
—to astound and congeal
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
| Scheme | XX AX AX BX XC XC XD BD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110010 1101001 111010 1111001 110110 101101 11110111 111 11011 111011 110010 1101101 1010010 001011 01011 101001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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