Analysis of him
You are the wax that
drips
off the candle and onto
my bedside table.
You are the one
stubborn
light
that goes out on a string
of Christmas spirit
and ruins it for everyone.
You are the snowflakes on
my red tin of Christmas cookies
(yes, you know the ones i’m talking about).
You are the ink splotches
on my ten year old
birthday cards.
You are the tea in my tea bags
that seeps into
the water of my life
slowly, stealthily, so that
I don’t notice until one day,
you’re all around me.
Scheme | ABCXDXXXXD XXX BXXXCXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 1 1010010 1110 1101 10 1 111101 11010 0101110 11011 11111010 1110111001 11011 11111 11 11010111 1101 010111 10111 11100111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 3, 9 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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