Analysis of Talismans of the Prime Mover



Removing the cavern,
Pulling it up like a sheet,
and inside
seeds shining like the stars
and randomly planted,
some implanted,
spiralling galaxies
in the womb of creation.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 010010 1011101 001 110101 010010 1010 100100 0011010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 164
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Katie Anderson

Katie Anderson is a historian and poet, living in the Saint Louis area. She has been published in Faerie Nation Mag, In The Write Mind at Central Florida Community College, and LitMag at the University of Missouri. She currently holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in History from the University of Missouri – Saint Louis. She is deeply passionate about the study of mythology and the afterlife. She enjoys thinking outside of the box, and experimenting with epic and narrative poetry. more…

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