Analysis of Bringing Up The Rear
The only one along this road…
riding shotgun through my mind
Tomorrow waits for someone else,
lost wanderings consigned
Forgetting what the moment augurs,
living in the past
Confirming what I’m most afraid of
—behind whoever’s last
(The New Room: January, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXAXBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 101111 011111 110001 010101010 10001 010111011 0111 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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