Analysis of Another's Wind To Blow
Walking around a
Mythical town
That doesn’t exist,
And looking for what
I would never find,
I trod those same streets
That I had been down
In my dreams before,
The sky barren,
Except for the sound
Of the exodus
Of wings,
Hovering over people
All moving away,
The backs of their heads
The only thing visible
As they marched off
Into the dark
With faces and eyes
Mortgaged ---
To pay for all the things
that they would never do
The terms of that indecision
written in the blood of repetition
The movement of the hawk,
--- another’s wind to blow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
Scheme | XAXXXXAXBXXCDXXDXXXX CX BB XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 1001 1101 01011 11101 11111 11111 01101 0110 01101 10100 11 1001010 11001 01111 0101100 1111 0101 11001 10 111101 111101 01110010 100011010 010101 1111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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