Analysis of Dialectical Float Therapy (DFT)



enter for sensory satiation
the lucidity of salinity.

look past your eyelids
to where the new cranial nerve is formed
where vagus and optic rewire to produce soul vision.

remind yourself to blink.

where you become a blue lily pad of mercury
in the Galilean thermometer of your life.
where stains only 1100 pounds of epsom salt
could dissolve.

where your buoyant vessel is propelled by the tides
of circadian rhythm
and the tidal volume
of your next sober breath.

the only constant is change.

please fill my cochlea with enough fluid
from the oval window
to vibrate my prefrontal cortex
back
online.


Scheme AB XXA X BXXX XXXX X XXXXA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 1011001 0010010100 1111 110110111 11010010101110 010111 1101011011100 000100100111 111011101 101 111010101101 1010010 001010 111101 0101011 11110010110 101010 110101010 1 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 604
Words 116
Sentences 8
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 1, 4, 4, 1, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Written on January 05, 2024

Submitted by hollingsworthheidi on February 06, 2024

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Heidi Hollingsworth

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