Analysis of DISORDER
howl of wind
a taste of chance
and salt and sea and
circumstance
grids of life
in heartbeat time
tears in our precious
paradigm
disorder
will dance and sing
when comfort is not
comforting
is it wrong
to shun the warm
and seek the beauty
of the storm?
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111 0111 01010 10 111 011 101010 10 010 1101 11011 100 111 1101 01010 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 256 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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