Analysis of Laura's Fault
What is the age
of reality itself
Older than
a metaphor
Unreferenced
on a shelf
What is the distance
unmeasured from within
Spoken of
but never seen
A poets
dying whim
What is time uncounted
as numbers lose their clout
The hourglass
returned to sand
An abacus
in doubt
What is love ungifted
but feelings’ last excuse
To roam unlinked
between the chains
And blame it
—on the Muse
(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXXBA XXXXXX BBXBXB BXBXBX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (48%) |
| Metre | 1101 11001 101 0100 1 101 11010 1101 101 1101 010 101 11110 110111 010 0111 1100 01 1111 110101 111 0101 011 101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 417 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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