Analysis of The Spiritual Nonsense .
The Spiritual Nonsense .
Bottom arrests wonder to Hamlet ,
As Alice travels Wonderland's gate ,
And Falstaff rises from death –bed .
Humpty Dumpty rides on Donquixote's back ,
Prospero wills Arden by Ariel's hack ,
Swift's tales as Gulliver reveals .
Invites Edward Lear to live in nonsense fable .
Aaron's cut off rod from Almond tree ,
Blossoms flowers as reason-free ,
And Jesus' touch washes death by bliss ,
Or turning a lover to vampire by Masuda's kiss .
The ghosts or saints in us are the twin-flowers ,
In the dark and lighted hemispheres ,-the two towers ,
Birth enjoins in death and death in birth ,
Evolves continuously earth after earth ,
And Faith is nonsense that adds grandeur
To incompleteness ,as phantasmagoria is our case .
Scheme | X X X X A A X X B B C C D D E E X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100010 100110110 1101011 0110111 10101111 1110111 11110001 011011101010 101111101 10101101 010110111 110010110111 01110110110 00101010110 11010101 01010001101 011101101 111001001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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