Analysis of Becoming Tomorrow
You have to be young
to disappear…
and healthy enough
to fall into the cracks
of a new tomorrow
You have to be young
to isolate…
and strong enough
to brave the winter
of a new becoming
(The New Room: September, 2022)
| Scheme | Axbxx Axbcx c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 101 01001 110101 10101 11111 110 0101 11010 101010 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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