Analysis of What’s in an Eye Blink?
The eyes never lie.
Their flutter gives directions.
Just follow the blinks.
And, like a lie detector.
Jekyll will unmask his Hyde.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 01101 1101010 11001 0101010 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 130 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
It has been argued, both in jest, and also with some seriousness, that while spontaneous eye blinking serves as a critical physiological function that may interrupt incoming visual information, to a trained diagnostician, it may also serve as a reliable measure or marker of a subject’s response to external environmental stimuli under psychological conditions established and conducted to obtain truth or falsity of responses. But, tongue in cheek not intended, guard how you wink or wince at what you have read. Your wink, after all, may have different cultural connotations. more »
Written on February 21, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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