Analysis of The Thought of Fixity and Movement



Transfix yourselves on the thought
of fixity and movement.
I hope you’re moved by it.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 0101101 11010 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 87
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

Philosophically, fixity and movement integrate the imperative of both flow and stability. I hope you appreciate this three-line poetry stanza. See my more extended poem on the subject, entitled “The DAO of Fixity and Movement.”

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Written on April 28, 2023

Submitted by karlcfolkes on April 28, 2023

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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