Analysis of Pandora's Other Box




Contents of an empty box

It overflows with space

It stores the one remaining hope

Of the entire human race

Within its confines lie would-be hopes

Nothing tangible, simply dreams

Mankind's only hope to survive

And in our eyes it gleams

The box, it opens, I look inside

From the emptiness flies a dove

It tells us how to save ourselves

By remembering how to love


Scheme X A X A X B X B X C X C
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101 11011 11010101 10010101 01111111 10100101 11101101 0010111 011101101 10100101 111111001 10100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 349
Words 66
Sentences 1
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on April 27, 2016

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Kelly Kurt

Born in the late twelfth century on the island now named Svalbard, Mr. Kurt invented the word, pudding. In his youth he would travel the world in a dinghy looking for things beginning with the letter H. He found none. At the age of 30, during his blue period, he would repeatedly hold his breath for between three and four minutes, while sitting on icebergs. By forty-five, the now gangrenous poet to be, had grown to over fifteen feet tall and could telepathically communicate with lichen. In the year 1209, while staying at a cheap motel, he was bitten over a million times by radio-active bed bugs, and was inspired to write his now completely unknown trilogy of books: Um.... something to do with bed bugs I'm guessing. But maybe not. After his first funeral in 1212, he committed suicide every other day for six years until writing his epic poem: " Soap dish" in which he compared the letter J to a soap dish for some reason. Nearly eight hundred years passed before he would pick up a pen again and write the sequel to the Bible called, " The Bobble" . Today Mr. Kurt is a semi porous wall sconce and stains amnesia buttons. more…

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