Analysis of A New Hand
Is mathematics a pre-school for searchers,
quantum physics grades two through four
Is what we now hold as absolute truth,
just a stairway to something much more
Are the numbers and letters so basic,
like the oils in Leonardo’s paint
Is time itself an illusion,
there to conjure and proffer restraint
But does music call out a new greeting,
as it flows past the thoughts in our mind
Is the act of our own recreating,
a new portal for what’s yet to find
And then will we ever relinquish,
YES or NO, the GOOD and the BAD
As the DNA of existence
—to those willing extends a new hand
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB CD CD XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011110 10101111 111111101 10111011 1010010110 101011 11011010 111001001 1110110110 1111010101 1011101100 011010111 011110010 11101001 10111010 111001011 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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