Analysis of Like A Vapor Trail
Like a silk cobweb floating on thin air
you're so diaphanous that you're barely there
Like a sundial scale representing time
you're so ephemeral that you're instant prime
Like a pencil mark scoring on a page
you're so erasable that you're just a stage
Like a tidal wave flowing back to sea
you're so deliberate that you're never free
Like a cosmic dust blowing over land
you're so impalpable that you're drifting sand
Like a pale specter moving up a coast
you're so indefinite that you're lucent-ghost
Like a vapor trail striping azure sky
you're so transitory that you're flashing by
| Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF GG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 101110111 11010011101 10110101 11010011101 1010110101 11010011101 1010110111 11010011101 1010110101 11111101 1011010101 11010011101 101011101 1110011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 571 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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