Analysis of Pavement Scaping
Lost in the city,
floundering alone
caught on the hook
of an abandoned dream
fighting in vain
against modernity’s pull
living the lie
—of eternity’s pain
(The New Room: July, 2021)
| Scheme | XXXXAXBA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 10001 1101 110101 1001 0111 1001 111 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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