Analysis of The Indian Sign
You never want to look your art
directly in the eye
For fear of having it look away
—you orphaned bye and bye
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 11011111 010001 111101101 110101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 136 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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