Analysis of Straight Emes
Words serve the meaning
and not the form
To awaken the morning
in spirit reborn
Each phrase as created
each couplet of verse
In praise of itself
—the structure to curse
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
Scheme | AXAX XBXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 0101 1010010 01011 111010 1111 01101 01011 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 197 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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