Analysis of Lost & Unclaimed
Standing in
baggage-claim,
watching belongings
go round again
waiting for something
that will never come,
an army of strangers
grab their bags and run
leaving me distant
adrift and alone,
as the carousel stops
—my location unknown
(Shangri-La Airport: January, 2004)
| Scheme | XXXXXXXXXAXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100 101 10010 1101 10110 11101 110110 11101 10110 01001 10101 101001 1011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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