Analysis of Missing The Dream
For a mountain to be high,
a valley must be low
But inherent in both,
one truth is to grow
Dimensions and colors
and polar extremes
Self-serving the obvious
—while missing the dream
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 010111 101001 11111 010010 01001 1100100 11001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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