Analysis of First And Then Last
The end, the beginning,
nearer than far
The middle a wasteland
—to banish and tar
(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)
Scheme | XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010 1011 01001 11001 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 104 |
Words | 18 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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