Analysis of A Lion Chases
Is consciousness emergent,
or de facto zero sum
Is what we know about ourselves,
a walk or more a run
A lion knows to chase a deer,
but not the reason why
The truth inherent in abstraction,
lost upon the fly
As man continues onward,
his psyche then will grow
Until surpassing all he seeks
—and all existence shown
(Villanova University: January, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XA XB AB XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100010 1110101 111101001 011101 01011101 110101 010100010 10101 1101010 110111 01010111 010101 0100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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