Analysis of So Close — So Far
My ambitions elitist
reality bourgeois
My palate continental
taste buds still raw
My ambition ennobled
vocation unhailed
My reality sordid
—future travailed
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Scheme | ABXBXAXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010 1001 110010 1111 1010010 0101 11010 101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 185 |
Words | 27 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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