Analysis of A lesson repeated
The stage has been set again
The players need not rehearse
Their lines known by heart
My performance likely the worse
I am the only one that approaches unprepared
While to all else-an identical set
To me a new beginning
Instead of a familiar circumstance
The cast of players stared in disgust
Knowing full well I would not understand
That this will not be the final performance
Rpeated a thousand times- would be repeated again
So the play resumed
As boring as the prior and the that before
As I stumbled from metaphor to deperate hint
Lost-confused-hope- something to ignore
But there is no easy answer
At least not for me
So the play will repeat
For me—for eternity
Scheme | A B X B X X X X X X X A X C X C X D X D |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 0111101 0101101 11111 10101001 110101101001 1111101001 1101010 011001010 011101001 101111101 11111010010 101011101001 10101 110101000101 11101100111 101110101 11111010 11111 101101 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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