Analysis of Waiting For An Echo
The cold dripping silence,
day after day…
Washes the future,
past floating away
Drop by drop,
filling up with regret
Drowning the moment
—caught in its net
(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XA BA XC XC B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011010 1101 10010 11001 111 101101 10010 1011 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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