Analysis of The Metaphysical State of Modern Man
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Faith, Hope, Peace and Love.
August doctrine of the metaphysician.
A Pauline healer of the human soul.
In quest of divine love and salvation.
To leave no human being behind.
As an island entire unto himself.
But to have us all as continental beings.
Not drifting away as fissured s(h)elves.
Yet ever shifting tectonically apart.
We are; relative to each other.
By language, class, race, color, creed.
With false expansion of our sense of being.
Contracting — rather than expanding.
Conversely so; and even more, inversely so.
Man remaining — an island unto himself.
O the irony of sophisticated modern man!
Scheme | XAXA XBXX XXXC CXBA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 11101 1010101 0011010101 0110110010 111101001 11100101001 11111101010 11001110111 11010101 111001110 11011101 110101101110 100101010 100101010101 10101101001 1010010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This four-stanza poem takes a satirical look at the metaphysical state of modern man.
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Written on October 31, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on October 31, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on November 02, 2023
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