Analysis of Behind Attic Walls
Their footsteps returned
as a shroud fell around me
Hiding me from the heels
of their jackened boots
Direction was lost
escape but a memory
Shouting their curses
re-echoing the past
(Shadows Of Anne Frank: November, 2023)
Scheme | XAXXXAXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1011011 101101 1111 01011 0110100 10110 110001 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 222 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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