Analysis of Plus One
Remembering
what you want to say
Forgetting
what you don’t
A writer’s choice
is zero sum
You will
until you won’t
Considering
that time well spent
Brings on
its just desserts
Consciousness
the poet’s form
Twice forward
— once reversed
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
Scheme | ABACXXXC ACXXXXCC B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100 11111 010 111 0101 1101 11 0111 0100 1111 11 1101 100 0101 110 101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 272 |
Words | 46 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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