Analysis of My Words - Hemingway To Gertrude Stein
Are those thoughts you put in
what I once valued more
Or would what I put out
be the end winning score
Did I need your ears
for my voice to become whole
Or would I rather them deafened
words deep in my soul
In my twenties your opinion
carried some weight
In my thirties I listened
but asked you to wait
In my forties I turned
and walked slowly away
Now alone in the twilight
—to carry the day
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XA BA XC BC XD XD XE XE X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 111101 111111 101101 11111 1111011 1111011 11011 01101010 1011 0110110 11111 011011 011001 101001 11001 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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