Analysis of Memory Exhales
I had to push myself away
To get close enough to touch
Embracing the distance as my friend
So the truth could finally breathe
Creating space for words to form
And their syllables to grow
Reaching beyond by reaching inside
—as memory exhales
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
| Scheme | XXXXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 1110111 010010111 10111001 01011111 0110011 100111001 11001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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