Analysis of The Camel Threads
No off position
on the genius switch
No light
to then burn out
No cracks to form
on Leonardo’s bronze
No Frazier Ali
rout
The expectations
stretch beyond
What humanity
can span
The eye of the needle,
the camel threads
What always could
—still can
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XA XX BA XX BC XX XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10101 11 1111 1111 111 11010 1 0010 101 10100 11 011010 0101 111 11 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 272 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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