Analysis of Their Contrail
Try as I might,
to hide from the words
Distant and fleeting,
they still can be heard
The nouns are a kite,
lone verb as the tail
Flying inside me,
my heart their contrail
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
| Scheme | AX XX AB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11101 10010 11111 01101 11101 10011 1111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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