Analysis of Real

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



Note to self,
add nothing on.
take nothing away,
all else is artifice,
drop all striving,
desist all resistance,
fall  down into reality,
stretch out congeal,
let personality consume itself,
be empty,
be real.


Scheme ABCDEFGHAGH
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 11001 111100 1110 011010 110110 1101 101000101 110 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 212
Words 44
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 35

About this poem

About not acting our way through life

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Written on April 06, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on April 06, 2024

Modified by robertl.92681 on April 06, 2024

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