A Critical Appreciation of the poem ‘’ written by a Famous Poet Denis Allen from Alaska United States
Life Math
‘Life Math’ is an expression of fun and an amazing example of word play, as the poet had fun with word play, when he was a digital logic guy in his work with distributed control systems and programmable logic controllers. According to the comments by Ali Tajmir-Riahi — “It is short and meaningful, I like the opening, yes, there is math in life, number is talking, gains and losses”
By making a structural analysis of the poem, it is clear that this poem consists of ten lines in continuous Ziket, beautifully adorned with a Zinet right after the first two lines. In this way, we can categorize this poem as Zikorean one instead of Ziket or Zinet.
By observing the structural analysis of the poem we meet with the prominent Ziketeer Poet who is smiling.
The structural analysis of this poem shows a trend of writing poems in a post-modern period of English literature. In this poem 12 out of 19 poetic lines related to Ziket poetic form in accordance with the rules. In this way, she has used 63 % Ziket Poetic Style without knowing the Zikorean Poetry in English or mentioning it if known.
Ziket:
Ziket is a shorter poetic form than Haiku as:
1. A Ziket consists of two poetic lines.
2. The first line has 1 to 8 syllables and the second line has 1 to 5 syllables or vice versa. It depends upon the mood and revelation of the poet.
3. The longest Ziket has a total of 13 syllables. e.g. Walt Whitman’s
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4. The shortest Ziket has a total of 2 syllables; https://bit.ly/3rLDVaU
one syllable in each poetic line.
Zinet:
Zinet is the shortest poetic form in English and in the world. It consists of only one poetic line to write or compose a whole poem. It has only 1 to 5 syllables. It has only 5 types. The longest Zinet contains 5 syllables to express the theme of the poem.
The shortest poetic form in English in the world is “First Type Zinet’ which has only one syllable in a unique single poetic line, for example, my first type of Zinet poems on the All Poetry is:
Achievements of the World
Wow!
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Pangs and Worries
Ah!
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Analysis of the poem:
adding and subtracting
people, pounds, habits
(The first line contains 6 syllables out of a total of 8 ones and the second line has 5 syllables out of a total of 5 ones)
needs and excesses
(The single poetic line that has 5 syllables out of 5 ones. It is a good example of a Zinet poem)
tally ho
I am one bit
(The first line contains 3 syllables out of a total of 8 ones and the second line has 4 syllables out of a total of 5 ones)
binary better
logic counts
(The first line contains 5 syllables out of a total of 8 ones and the second line has 3 syllables out of a total of 5 ones)
gain is loss for
slaves to scores
(The first line contains 4 syllables out of a total of 8 ones and the second line has 3 syllables out of a total of 5 ones)
dead reckoning
misses the journey
(The first line contains 4 syllables out of a total of 8 ones and the second line has 5 syllables out of a total of 5 ones)
