Analysis of Drifting
Reading your words
And words I said
Now echoes on
A frozen stream.
Try on the memories,
Everything meant (once real),
Laugh at me
Shadows on a lonely page...
How can happiness be
So cruel?
Subtle evil
Tearing lovers apart.
As so many words are broken,
The pieces are careen
More helpless
Against a darkening sky...
Where are the magic hands
I once held?
Where are the softening eyes
So pure?
Dreamed away on tales
Now discarded,
Wind blown ashes
From yesterday's fire.
To collapse and kiss
A soul goodbye.
| Scheme | XXXX XXAX ABBX XXXC XXXX XXXX XC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 0111 1101 0101 110100 10111 111 110101 111001 110 1010 101001 11101110 010101 110 0101001 110101 111 1101001 11 10111 1010 1110 11010 10101 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 517 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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