Analysis of Dropping Fast
Racing the dark from Albuquerque to Flagstaff
old questions trailed behind me
The highway marked with broken dreams
of searchers long ago
As Gallup filled my rearview mirror
the sun reached out and grabbed me
My last horizon dropping fast
—the finish line aglow
(Flagstaff Arizona: February, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XB XA XB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011100011 1101011 0111101 110101 110111010 0111011 11010101 010101 1010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 300 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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