Analysis of Its Memory Anchors Still
The ship has sailed,
—but its memory anchors still
My dreams unmasted,
—in a harbor drained and filled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2015)
Scheme | AX AX X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 0111 11100101 111 0010101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 144 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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