Analysis of A Way Back
Buried reflection,
pits of regret
Reasons to wander,
darkness forgets
Images rising,
blessed by the sun
Timeless reversal
—forgiveness begun
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
Scheme | AX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 1101 10110 1001 10010 1101 10010 01001 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 166 |
Words | 23 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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