Analysis of "[The gold road was swept]"
Matthew Sean Markonis 1984 (Santa Barbara)
The gold road was swept
with a longing look
from the Holy book
that the angels keep.
You must be what God
sees in His sleep.
| Scheme | XAAB XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 10101 10101 10101 11111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 125 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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