Analysis of Inward
Silence...all but the scratching of a pencil,
blocked out by a far away place.
Words never spoken, cease to be heard.
Eyes seeing nothing, never telling what they saw.
A state of mass confusion, although forever quiet.
Life, my soul, my mind.
I sit in a room filled with people not there.
Puzzled, yet knowing everything never told.
"I love you" comes out. Why so easily said?
Love's not really there, yet it's rapidly growing.
Understanding everything but really knowing nothing.
Life, my soul, my mind.
Scheme | xxxxxA xxxbbA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 11101011 110101111 110101010111 0111010101010 11111 11001111011 1011010101 11111111001 111011110010 010101101010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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