Analysis of Educating Ego
By what labyrinthine repetitions,
by what agile, precise divisions,
by what accretions, do we compile
a life's arcane hieroglyphs,
its subtle, unmathematic mysteries?
What cold calculus shall we yet invent
to construct the introspective model?
What distribution curve, what standard deviation,
shall predict the time remaining on atomic clocks
'tll we exist entirely in a universe of our own creation?
Shall we make of stars mere red-shifted,
spectral lines on photographic plates?
Will heartache be reduced to sine waves,
mapped by styli on graduated rolls
revolving in precise concurrence
with computed average biologic rates?
Shall we expunge the record from the file,
shall we precipitate a system crash?
What key shall be called escape and which restore?
What impulse shall span the neural gap,
what synapsis presage what deity?
And will there be a world left to explore?
Will we stop to soliloquize?
What obeisance shall we require?
Piety is no mark of barren earth and rocks,
nor of sterile wind and raging fire.
Scheme | AABCDEFGHGIJKLMJBNOPQORSHS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 111001010 1111101 01101 1101100 1110011101 101001010 10101110010 1010101010101 1101010000101101010 111111110 1110101 11101111 11111001 010001010 10101000101 1101001101 110100101 11111010101 110110101 11101100 0111011101 1111010 111110 100111110101 1110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 994 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 828 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 164 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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