Analysis of Last Step
Hunting the distant banks
Of one lost remembrance
A reckoning came upon me
Excuses left askance
My tracks grew large
As midnight’s table turned
The prey had changed to predator
Of a memory left unlearned
The dark repeating whispers
my soul afraid to tell
Until its breath upon my back
—last step my fear to quell
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101 111010 01001011 010101 1111 11101 01111100 1010011 0101010 110111 01110111 111111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 384 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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