Analysis of The Numbers Fail
In Newtonian Mechanics,
the future is the past
What lags behind, what sits ahead,
the Jester only laughs
A one for one relation,
its truth in bas-relief
The numbers hail, the numbers fail
—empirical deceit
(Villanova University: January, 2020)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00100010 010101 11011101 010101 0111010 110101 01010101 10001 0100100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 237 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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