Analysis of The Hopeless Case
A mother
left crying
alone in her pew
Begging the Lord
for a miracle
new …
The only thing
he was good at
was being bad
Bus stations
train stations
corn maidens in drag
He came and he went
with the most
discordant rhyme
His sins
left uncounted
but marking the time
In Akron Ohio
his grifting
unwrapped
Those roads
in New Mexico
calling him back
The lights
and the sirens
again on their way
His thumb
in the wind
— Saint Jude in dismay
(The Breezeway: January, 2024)
| Scheme | XAB XXB AXX CCX XXD XXD EAX XEX XCF XXF X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010 110 01001 1001 10100 1 0101 1111 1101 110 110 11001 11011 101 0101 11 110 11001 010010 11 01 11 0110 1011 01 0010 01111 11 001 11001 01100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 482 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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