Analysis of Black Swans
by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
Black swans are a thing.
That thing never seen before,
Not known to exist,
What has never happened before.
If you can think of it,
Can expect or imagine it,
That swan is not black, or a swan
Just a strange possibility.
I discovered my own personal swans
Surprised by, not discovered
Personal tsunamis, personal lottery wins
Not the Vegas kind; rather, the lotteries of life.
Never imagined things I might do
Or would happen while racing into eternity
Is the incredible waiting to spring
What will it mean for me, or you?
Wonderfully good, or bad beyond belief?
Shocks of the universe or just for your life?
Intimate black swans while on your way,
The chance encounter changing life.
Unknown unknowns.
No need to worry.
Can’t do anything about
A new wrinkle in what in life can’t expect.
The unexpected we can never know
Until fate dishes it out.
Destiny that was there all along,
A high or low note of life’s song.
Scheme | A BCXC AAXD XXXE FDBF XEXE XDGX XGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 11101 1110101 11101 11101001 111111 10110101 11111101 1010100 1010111001 0111010 10011001001 1010110010011 100101111 1110110010100 1001001011 11111111 10001110101 1101011111 100111111 01010101 0101 11110 111001 01100101101 001011101 0111011 100111101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 957 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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