Analysis of Reaching For Xanadu
Skeletons rule the attic,
rooks have left the board
emptiness I can’t explain,
darkness untoward
Lapses in my memory,
lyrics left unsung
chasing all those things I’m not,
orphan on the run
Monday turns to Thursday,
Tuesday, Wednesday lost
time on fire, burning fast,
sanity the cost
One last chance for freedom,
pathway to the cliff
to jump into my deepest fear
—or sink in this abyss
(The New Room: February, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXA BXXX XXXX XXXX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010 11101 1001101 10001 1001100 10101 1011111 10101 10111 10101 1110101 10001 111110 1101 11011101 110101 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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