Analysis of Thoughtless



it all crashes gracelessly,
with hearts bombarding chests
serrated by a loose tongue
owned by one with looser intentions.

falling hard before stumbling
into a brackish pit.
too captured by black whispers
to even think of thoughtlessness.

- Asher J. Bond


Scheme XAXX XXXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 110101 101011 111110010 10101100 010101 1101110 110111 1011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 245
Words 41
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on September 03, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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