Analysis of Going Home
Not welcoming death
but befriending its shadow
whose blanket I wear
in this carrying wind
The brother to life
who spawned all existence
his eyes are my wings
—flying into the night
(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 101011 11011 011001 01011 111010 11111 100101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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