Analysis of Once Breathless
Our love has gone from
hard cover to soft
The words between us typed,
no longer scribed
The moments counted,
that once were thrown breathless in the wind
Our feelings stilted
—with words to just describe
(Kanab Utah: July, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 11011 010111 1101 01010 110110001 101010 111101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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