Analysis of "And Yet It Moves"



Reason
without evidence
Truth
without form

Burning
the ladder
Immune
from the scorn

Nuance
to sleepwalk
As reality
dreams

Proof
in the eye
Galileo
redeemed

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXAX XXXX A
Poetic Form
Metre 10 01100 1 011 10 010 01 101 10 11 110 1 1 001 010 01 1100
Characters 189
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 9
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 18, 2023

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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