Analysis of Divinity Chosen
Do three dimensions,
preclude a fourth
Does pointing toward South,
prevent being North
Is now just the midpoint,
between future and past
Does the freedom to choose,
leave all nature aghast
Is one and one two,
if one is in doubt
Are the whole or its parts,
what this world is about
Are Creation and Physics,
at war with themselves
Is Divinity chosen
—willed unto one self
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: July, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XC XC XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 0101 110011 01101 11101 011001 101011 111001 11011 11101 101111 111101 1010010 11101 1010010 11011 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 400 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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