Analysis of Formless

Nickie Shah

Formless
amorphous
shape shifter
I am.
Blurry
boundaries
smudge
my essence.
Erase
traces
of my
existence.
Becoming
invisible
is merely survival

Scheme AABCDAEAAAFAGHH
Poetic Form Tetractys  (73%)
Metre 1 010 110 11 10 100 1 110 01 10 11 010 010 0100 110010
Characters 129
Words 21
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 8
Words per line (avg) 1
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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