Analysis of Sylvan Escape
Listen to the silence,
hear each frozen word
wrap your mind around itself
distant from the herd
Feel the bracing numbness,
lift what can’t be touched
free one starling in the night
—windblown through the musk
(Dreamsleep: February, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXAXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 11101 1110101 10101 101010 11111 1110001 1101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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