Analysis of Short Window
He burned the book on the second day,
its truth not till the third
but in between–his memory screamed,
forever to be heard
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 110110101 111101 100111001 010111 110010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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