Analysis of No Curtain Call
As we age
death
reclaims us
Stealing
our youth
and then our hope
In the ground
where
memories rot
Willing us
nothing
—but the dark
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
| Scheme | XXABXX XXXABX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1 11 10 101 01101 001 1 1001 101 10 101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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