Analysis of Disappointment
Jozef Milko 1960 (Bratislav)
Time enough
flashing candle
cup of wine
tenderness in us
we can fly
about the sky
in my mind
we can be sailing
two flat hand are a ship
drift on your body
we can die
hateful
tired
lonely
| Scheme | XAX X BBX XXC BAXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 1010 111 10001 111 0101 011 11110 111101 11110 111 10 10 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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