Analysis of Lost Stitches
If you can’t stand the criticism
put down your pen
Instead take up knitting
but caution the thread
Too thick and your stifled
too thin and your bare
As needles purl over
—what hides in despair
(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXXXABA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110100 1111 011110 11001 110110 11011 110110 11001 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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