Analysis of XII
Matthew Sean Markonis 1984 (Santa Barbara)
You: the mouth of a saxophone,
and I: a long-drawn sigh.
A palace of gold splinters into the fog,
to be an inhalation.
| Scheme | XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1011010 010111 0101110101 1110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 119 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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