Analysis of Love… Hate
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Life Death Like a pendulum
moves across time/space
As if blind More than time displaced
Let me state my case;
Back and forth relative comparisons
Are measured for depth, breadth Right to left,
positions are assigned Left to right
Inscriptions are aligned. Good or evil life designs
Mind and body/Spirit and soul or the circular
Round and round clockwise/counterclockwise
Spherical, elliptical routes. Apogee perigee
Tidal cyclical Multi-dimensional moves
Tik-toc Yin-Yang laws of physics applied
Rotational/gravitational In and out/Up and down
Hanging in the balance like sand in an hourglass Running without pretense to an end all must face.
with memories of warmth/light to hold on to
Or hate cold/dark
Except that
All traces of our existence
Will be… Erased.
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Scheme | XA BA XX XX XX XX XX A XX XX B X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100 10111 11111101 11111 1011000100 110111111 010101111 0101011110101 1010100110100 1011010 10001001101 101001001001 1111111001 01000100001101 100010110110100101111111 11001111111 1111 011 110110010 1101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 826 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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