Analysis of Tears Wait
Soulless
Dissected
A heart turning back
Jilted
Rejected
Last stab in the back
Mourning
New morning
The day unatoned
Nighttime
The verdict
Whose sentence disowns
Lovers
And lizards
The swamp but the same
Feeding
On hunger
Starvation the game
Cursing
each blessing
with heartache reset
Dying
While living
— new tears wait unwept
(The New Room: January, 2024)
| Scheme | ABCDDCEEBXXAXXFEXFEEXEEB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (68%) |
| Metre | 10 010 01101 10 010 11001 10 110 011 1 010 1101 10 010 01101 10 110 01001 10 110 1101 10 110 1111 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 24, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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