Analysis of That Human About Us
The lack of humanity
drives zero-sum
Away from each other
a darkening sun
What science explains
its methods conceal
Frustration attacks
lost cogs on the wheel
Desperation in charge
its point ever sharp
To pierce into nothing
but leaving its mark
That human about us
left bare unatoned
Quantifying our passion
—stripped clean to the bone
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: January, 2021)
| Scheme | AXXB XCXC XXXX XABX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110100 1101 011110 01001 11001 11001 01001 11101 01001 11101 110110 11011 110011 111 1001010 11101 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 367 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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