Analysis of Talking Heads
Left or right
the noise drones on
Distractions prized,
the message gone
What’s right is right
unless it’s left
The truth beguiled
—our soul’s bereft
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
| Scheme | AX XX AB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 0111 0101 0101 0111 0111 0101 10101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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