Analysis of Fence
Time, a horrible gate.
Pictures of past an impermeable gap.
We cannot pass.
Pained imaginings of who you are, who you were.
I ask in silence to be met with mute denial.
Much too soon I will be the voiceless ghost,
peering through the fence,
begging to be known,
to be real again.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001 1011111 1101 111111110 1101011111010 1111110101 10101 10111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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