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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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 09, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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