Analysis of As Then Conceived
Through the bedroom window
in my Grandmother’s house,
shone three lights—far off and red
Vertically stacked,
representing the distance,
to a young boy fast in bed
A distance that I
was born to travel,
my hopes as then conceived
A distance that called my dreams
to wander
—whose voice would never leave
(Dreamsleep- May, 2020)
| Scheme | XXA XXA XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 01101 1111101 1001 010010 1011101 01011 11110 111101 0101111 110 111101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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