Analysis of Alone
I pointed my nose into the wind,
my eyes along the skyline
Waiting for a signal,
the past to throw a bone
I placed my ear unto the ground,
listening for redemption
Tasting all the empty years,
bereft of touch—alone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
| Scheme | XX AB XX XB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110101 110101 101010 011101 11111001 1001010 1010101 011101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 21, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on January 21, 2020
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