Analysis of Tracks It Leaves
Stalking every dream
calling me from sleep
A Yeti of the frozen night
I drove the pitons deep
Climbing over hope
belaying every wish
The tracks it leaves — perdition bound
to wander in the mist
(Haverford Pennsylvania: May, 2024)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001 10111 01010101 11011 10101 11001 011111 110001 1000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 03, 2024
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on May 03, 2024
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