Analysis of Pascal's Wager
There’s nothing objective about spirit,
in that lies its strength and its truth
Unable to measure, only to feel,
its critics profane and uncouth
Science declares it the enemy,
its formulas explaining away
Why love has no bearing and within it we’re lost
—God’s execution unstayed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XB XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100100110 01111011 0101101011 11001011 100110100 110001001 111110001101 10101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 319 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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