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
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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