Analysis of Tumble
a rolling shadow across the blisterland
sand barely displaced by the ramble
momentum staying in motion
leaving no trace of its revolution
gone the way of the breeze-
a skeleton in purgatory
bundled in the tumbleweed styx
shepherded by the charon wind
navigating barren infinity
destined to death by crumbling-
through the valley of the lonely
a lost sunset silhouette
defenseless against the windshackle
leaves no footprints, no grave, dust-
the land feels no pain for ghosts
never gets to know nomads,
ashes to nameless ashes
respite in pieces, back to fragments,
relieved from perdition-
allowed to be nothing instead.
Scheme | ABCCDEFAAGEABAHIJKCA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 01010101 110011010 01010010 101111010 101101 01000100 100011 10010101 100100100 10111100 10101010 01101 0100101 111111 0111111 101111 1011010 100101110 0111 01111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on September 29, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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