Analysis of Drifting Away
To see any clearer
I drifted away
From your
lies
From your
madness
From your paperless
tray
The word forest
called
For my pen to break
free
From the blurred
introspection
Hovering close to your
tree
And when my vision
unclouded
A bigger picture
appeared
In whose distance
I found
What your nearness
had feared
(Train In Massachusetts: March, 2015)
| Scheme | ab Cd Ce eb fx xg xh cg hf ai xx di x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (56%) |
| Metre | 111010 11001 11 1 11 10 11100 1 0110 1 11111 1 101 010 100111 1 01110 1 01010 01 0110 11 111 11 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 326 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on March 23, 2015
Modified on April 19, 2023
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