Analysis of The Illusory Nature of the Inner World



SELF at rest.

Leaving busy thoughts behind.

Entering a space where consciousness is not desired.

Experiencing an exoplanet inner world of newfound possibilities.

Programmed enigmatically by the archetypal collective unconscious.


Scheme X X X X X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 111 1010101 10001110011010 01000111011110100 111011001010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 232
Words 38
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 6

About this poem

As the Bard William Shakespeare once declared in The Tempest: “We are such stuff as dreams are made of.”

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Written on February 08, 2024

Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 08, 2024

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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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