Analysis of Swallow
I swallow my words
With poison and poise
I swallow my words
To keep peace
To keep me in
To swallow my words
I hold the letters beneath my tongue
Like pills waiting to come back up
I drink you in
To wash them back down
Ready to speak
You hold me down
By my throat you ease the letters in
Each thrust and squeeze knocks a letter down
I swallow my words again
| Scheme | A x A x b a x x b c x c b c x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 11011 11001 11011 111 1110 11011 110100111 11101111 1110 11111 1011 1111 111110100 110110101 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 15 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Your mind may not be spoken
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