Analysis of Hollow
my body is but an empty shell,
hollow with inky blackness… no light within.
grey ash lays where my heart used to be, long shattered and torn.
no hope left to sustain its irregular beat…just whispering shadows of grief… too profound
for my mortal soul
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101 10110101101 11111111111001 1111011010011100111101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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