Analysis of Distance Calling
The channel seemed open,
but the tuner was stuck
Its dial had frozen
mixed static and such
The instructions were missing,
and the knobs wouldn’t turn
Its transmission now distant
—all frequency burned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | AX AX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110 101011 110110 11001 0010010 00111 1010110 11001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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