Analysis of A Voice Now Gone
The night a killer with retinas that burn,
all verses running mad
Fists of silence coming out of the dark,
opening up to grab
Fingers choking the last vocal chord,
strangulation by command
The quiet finality of a voice now gone
—gripped in my own hands
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101111 110101 1110101101 100111 101001101 010101 010010010111 10111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 272 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 20, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on March 20, 2020
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