Analysis of Depths Of Understanding
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Every deep thinker is a cup
Reaching for the bottom,
The hull pressing
Into dark water,
Afraid of what lies within.
They say to be misunderstood
Is a bitter pill to swallow,
But to be understood,
Well, that is a blade
Sharp enough to sever
The root from the stem,
To split the heart open
And leave it quivering.
No, it is safer to live
In the shadows of ambiguity,
To speak in riddles
And draw meaning
In the lines between words.
| Scheme | XXABX CXCXBXXA XXXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100110101 101010 0110 01110 0111101 1111001 10101110 11101 11101 101110 01101 110110 011100 1111011 00110100 11010 0110 001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 431 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 8, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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