Analysis of There Was Neither Heaven Nor Earth
There was neither heaven
nor earth
God's Spirit
hovered above
the emptiness
now I take
a white sheet of paper
and write:
it's already in the past.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 111010 11 110 1001 0100 111 011110 01 1010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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This poem is about past experiences.
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