Analysis of Portum Tutum
Thankful for the one,
the one who’s never asking
the one forever constant
the one who only gives
Appreciative of the one,
the one forever present
the one beyond all judgment
—the one whose heart bleeds free
(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)
| Scheme | AXBX ABBX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 0111010 0101010 011101 0100101 0101010 0101110 011111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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