Analysis of Not I
If reality is meant to change,
Buddhists may be right
The stops and starts of wasted dreams,
to bury in the night
With truth in self-denial,
our awareness springs and grows
The burdens of all conscious thought,
released—once letting go
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 10111 01011101 110001 1101010 10010101 01011101 011101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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