Analysis of Unable To Speak
Trying to make the poetry prose
Or the prose poetic again
I insulted the meaning
With juxtaposition
Stabbing an idea
That should have been shot
Killing a verse
That should have been saved
Thinking the truth
While uttering a lie
Forming the words
—unable to speak
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2014)
| Scheme | XXXXXXXXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101001 10101001 1010010 10010 101010 11111 1001 11111 1001 110001 1001 01011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 290 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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