Analysis of Zero Balance
Once spent …
there’s no tomorrow
Once spent …
all time is rife
Once spent …
your fortune tendered
Death’s currency
—is life
(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
| Scheme | Ax Ab Ax xb x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1101 11 1111 11 11010 1100 11 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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