Analysis of Road Kill
Death failed to show up for work one day,
the clock remained unpunched
Hospital’s waiting, graveyards on call,
all coroner’s out to lunch
Death took a holiday without checking in,
the pecking order stunned
Like a deer on the highway, all headlights turned off
—awaiting what’s to come
(Dreamsleep: November, 2020)
| Scheme | AA XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111111 01011 1010111 1100111 1101001100 010101 1011011111 010011 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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