Analysis of Jagged
I saw myself:
captured forever on film,
sat on a cold floor,
stone eyes looking back.
Slithering -
through delicious
imagination,
the jagged glass
from the once
full window of
surreptitious thoughts
start ramming,
slamming against me.
I saw myself:
trapped in time.
| Scheme | Axxx bxxxxxxbx Ax |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (53%) |
| Metre | 111 1001011 11011 11101 100 1010 0010 011 101 1101 0101 110 10011 111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 9, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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