Analysis of Hollow & Silent
If a poem doesn’t live up
to its title
The moment is reclaimed
by time
Its chance to anoint
when read disappoints
A bell
—unable to chime
(The New Room: April, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXB XXXB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 1110 010101 11 11101 1101 01 01011 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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