Analysis of Subliminal Ink
I refuse to remember
what I can never forget
Words lost to my memory
lined deep with regret
The faster I write,
the deeper I hide
A reckoning hovers
—forgiveness denied
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
| Scheme | XA BA XC XC B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010 1111001 1111100 11101 01011 01011 010010 01001 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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