Analysis of Returning
the ravens always gather
like berry-tipped trees,
or leaves on the impromptu eaves
backlit by sunset and evening grievances
whitewashed, no camera
to capture their seething
flutter
lamps their ruddy gold eyes would make
they are demons with legs for days
but this is not a self-description
for what that they are, they know not
| Scheme | AXXXXXA XX XX |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110 11011 11100101 111010100 11100 110110 10 11101111 11101111 111101010 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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