Analysis of The Final Lie
Numbers have a lasting smell
while figures have a taste
Shapes can make an ancient sound
whose feelings stay untraced
Intuition grants a wish
to those who rebegin
Dimension in the blackest hole
new dwarf stars from within
Counting up or counting down
deception stays the same
What you gain or what you lose
redundant in the game
Endings come and endings go
ephemerally despised
Until the sacrificial lamb
—bleats out the final lie
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB BCXC XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 110101 1111101 11011 010101 1111 01000101 111101 1011101 010101 1111111 010001 1010101 101 0100101 110101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 471 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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