Analysis of Damnation Refound



A Mississippi back road
  burns in my mind

Its memory twice buried,
  resurfaces, reminds

That Mississippi back road,
  you once led me down

Perdition, destruction,
 —damnation refound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme AX XX AX XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 001011 1011 1100110 101 101011 11111 1010 0101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 216
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 02, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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