Analysis of No Way Out
The journey kindled,
hopes ablaze,
a future now unseen
Moments of ecstacy,
moments of grief,
lost ashes inbetween
Cowling on fire,
time a slow burn,
the stationmaster cries…
“The tracks have melted,
locomotive’s in flames
—your ticket singed and fried”
(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)
| Scheme | XAB AXB XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 101 010101 1011 1011 1101 10110 1011 011 01110 01001 110101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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