Analysis of Accents



Sometimes I feel like a gypsy child
Sometimes I dream of my parents
Trying so hard
that blood wilts from their ears,
The line between towns is
A brick wall of my face
Covered in printed words
The corners darkening the closer they come into view
New names filter in with accents,
I cross the street and
Feel as if the sparrows
may be dying,
So slowly, like the leaves falling
In the time between
The summers,
In the time between
The winters.
I try so hard,
Embodying my weakness
when it flows to my shins,
to breaks I make in the trail,
Blood wilts from the toes that I never
see,
 Blood wilts and never
has the chance to run clear


Scheme abcdefghijkllMnMncobpqrqs
Poetic Form Tetractys  (36%)
Metre 011110101 01111110 1011 111111 010111 011111 100101 01010001011011 11100110 11010 111010 1110 11010110 00101 010 00101 010 1111 0100110 111111 1111001 111011110 1 11010 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 638
Words 137
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 498
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted by Rainerabinowitz on January 06, 2022

Modified on April 28, 2023

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