Analysis of Sandbars
Are you digging a hole
you will never crawl out of,
a prison self-made by your hand
The metaphors mix
as you lie there betwixt
—the bars sinking into the sand
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Scheme | XXAXXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001 1110111 01011111 01001 111101 01100101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 180 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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