Analysis of Elba Blues
That unshared secret…
a crawlspace of denial
where shadows keep your heart at bay,
lonely all the while
To hide in darkened corners,
as falsehood lends its smile
your mind left cramped—all virtue tramped,
banished and exiled
(Dreamsleep: September, 2020)
| Scheme | XXXA XAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 011010 1111111 10101 1101010 11111 11111101 1001 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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