Analysis of IMAGINE THE UNKNOWABLE



Imagine the unknowable,
Its bitter waters
Spray through your mind.

You anticipate
The unknown, imagining
The unknowable.

You're imagining
The unimaginable,
In your fervid dreams.

Then you contemplate
The uncontemplatable,
In your dizzy life.

You're reconciling
The unreconcilable,
In this broken world.

Are you destroying
The indestructible,
By power of mind?

Then you're performing
The unperformable
In your daily routine.

If you can imagine
Must it be possible?
Or merely sometimes?

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme AXB CDA DAX CAX DAX DAB DAX XAX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01000100 11010 1111 1010 0010100 00100 10100 001000 01101 1110 01 01101 1100 01 01101 11010 00100 11011 11010 01 011001 111010 111100 11001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 533
Words 81
Sentences 10
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 9

About this poem

One of my reflections on life and the cosmos.

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Written on July 20, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 27, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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