Analysis of With Every Breath
It’s not about
your need to hear
but what I need to say
The words unbartered
spoken clean
released to have their way
They choose their own
intended path
in beelines of advance
To scent the air
with every breath
—beyond your circumstance
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: June, 2022)
| Scheme | AXB AXB XXC XXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1111 111111 011 101 011111 1111 0101 01101 1101 11001 01110 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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