Analysis of Louis Pasteur and Dextrotartaric Acid, 1848
Louis Pasteur and Dextrotartaric Acid, 1848
By Xiaoyuan Yin
On a grayish slide under the microscope, tiny human figures
Evolve into kaleidoscopic anaerobes. Make sure chubby silkworms and ferocious hounds
Are in their places, since your being in love with cerevisiaes’ tribe
Has hit the headlines. When wars and misfortunes swept out everything on flights of
World’s stairs, how could you trust milk and water
So fickle and suspicious? Benevolent eyes through the dust and smoke sought for scavengers
To clear rotten leaves from veins of people, at the cost of
Heat and time. Maybe he just overdid it, Otherwise, why with their last breath
They praised the land and flocks over her? ‘Stonehenge is a symbol of
Constant state.’ Tartaric acid crystals, blossomed into patina green
In Val de Loire. Across the fingers of the Creator
L-tartaric Acid and D-tartaric Acid, swirling, like oil of science poured on the flame
Of nature. Daylight is restored, as if
Never been stolen. It can be heard, the gurgle of little souls
Within bodies of fowls – they no longer swarm into Eden
To be its bowerbirds.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010110 111 1010110010101010 01011101110100101 10110111001111 11011100101110111 1111111010 1100010010011010111100 11101111101011 10110111011011111 110101100110101 1011101010010101 01110101010010 11100111010111101101 110110111 1011011110101101 011011111010110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,106 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 16 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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