Analysis of "The Missing Shade..."
Is the self
“a mere bundle
of perceptions”
If Hume’s right,
are the rest of us
wrong
When stimuli exits,
do we then
disappear
Existence abeyant,
too weak
—to live on
(Villanova University Library: April, 2021)
| Scheme | XAX BXX XXX BXX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 0110 1010 111 10111 1 11010 111 01 0101 11 111 01001001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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