Analysis of The Traveler



He,
so ignorant
will not find
proper shelter,
is lost, will wander.
His shadow follows him
even in the dead of night,
until
he
mysteriously
awakens.


Scheme AbcddefgAah
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1100 111 1010 11110 11101 1000111 01 1 1000 010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 138
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted by arthurweil on October 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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