Analysis of Skirting The Line
Touching
without feeling
Looking
without seeing
Talking
without saying
Lost
— in the dark
(Villanova University: February, 2024)
| Scheme | AAAAAAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 0110 10 0110 10 0110 1 001 0100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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