Analysis of Left To Weep
The truth runs thin
along the borderline
Where voices lie weary
and valleys grow deep
The truth runs distant
along the borderline
Where choices are frozen
—new dreams left to weep
(Las Vegas Nevada: February, 2019)
| Scheme | xA bc xA xc b |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 01010 110110 01011 01110 01010 110110 11111 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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