Analysis of Effigies
Our senses fashion effigies
Of a dead past, useless as guides
Where strict finality resides.
Mute phantoms drowned in icy seas.
But halved funereal diptychs show
Reflections of the things to be.
The not yet displayed in symmetry,
A future mirrored long ago.
| Scheme | AAAABCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 10111011 11010001 11010101 11111 01010111 011010100 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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