Analysis of And Your Eyes Close Again
If you think it’s just one thing,
while believing it’s not
Or you hope it’s another,
then folly’s your lot
If you swear it sits outside,
as you dream from within
All meaning encrypts,
and your eyes close again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 101011 1111010 1111 1111111 111101 1101 011101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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