Analysis of Freedom of uncertainty

Edward T Medalis 1939 (Detroit Michigan)



Discard your umbrella of certainty
It rains probabilities to form seas
Swim in the seas of probabilities
Bask in the freedom of uncertainty


Scheme ABBA
Poetic Form Enclosed rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 0110101100 110100111 100110100 1001010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 136
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Modified on April 11, 2023

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Edward T Medalis

High school, Electronics, and Computer Programming Education. Atheist and poet. Served in the US Army for 3 years. Worked in Greenland on the BMEWS project for 1.5 years. Retired from a career at IBM with the title of Computer Scientist working primarily on imbedded operating systems software and microprocessor testing software. more…

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