Analysis of four again
the only time i feel like a child is when i’m with my mother
softly, softly, she pats my hair under pale gray skies and over tear stained bed sheets
and i’m 4 again
i beg her to tell me whos face is on the moon
where the stars go in the morning
if they are lonely when they leave us
she gathers me in silk and i beg for her to leave the nightlight on
in my dreams i am small and i run from a bug hidden under my clothes
she tells me i have worries
she makes me soup
i fall tired in the backseat and i’m 4 again
my fever grows with my dred to fall ill
i feel the fluorescent curve of highway cars
and quiet humming to a radio
and i feel safe again
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJCKLMC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101111011111110 10101111101110101111 0101 110111111101 10110010 111101111 1101010111011011 011111011101101011 1111110 1111 111000010101 1101111111 110101111 010101010 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 502 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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