Analysis of Coming—About
We make the truth we need
to worship gods of time
And love in spite of hate
whose conjure ill defined
We set the past in stone
to keep tomorrow chaste
And travel inward free of both
—whose presence we displace
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 110111 010111 110101 110101 11011 01010111 110101 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 241 |
Words | 46 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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