Analysis of Reaching For The Cream
Have I finally truly said it all
running out of words
Thoughts and feelings too remote
my pen a blunted sword
The doors revolve and seasons change
as Winter calls my name
Whose grammar laced with period ends
and fingers stricken lame
A final time my eyes shut tight
to fall into a dream
Just one more word—new phrase to grace
reaching for the cream
(Villanova University: July, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110010111 10111 1010101 110101 01010101 110111 110111001 010101 01011111 110101 11111111 10101 01001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 388 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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