Analysis of Cutting Both Ways
Trying to defend
what you cannot describe
All life on the edge
—to affirm or deny
(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 10101 111001 11101 101101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 103 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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