Analysis of Last Tear
Watching myself
Wanting you
Standing alone
—the end in view
Watching myself
Reach out through the pain
Lost shadow of night
—last tear in your rain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2016)
| Scheme | Abxb Acxc x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101 1001 0101 101 11101 1111 11011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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