Analysis of Last Vial
Draining all there was to say,
he hemorrhaged one more poem
Last vial of his history,
whose burden now atoned
With final drops to say adieu,
the past and future dead
His last tomorrow here today
—and time no longer bled
(Dreamsleep: April. April 2022)
| Scheme | AXXB BBAB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 11001110 11011100 11011 11011101 010101 1101101 011101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 24, 2022
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on April 24, 2022
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