Analysis of A Ladder Appears
Stuck on the broken landing
Of a stairway to nowhere
My mood no longer elevated
My spirit remiss of song
Looking over the railing
Into a history that I buried
A ladder appears above me
But when I step—its rungs are gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | AXXX AXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 10111 11110100 1100111 1010010 0101001110 01001011 11111111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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