Analysis of Fault—Line
Deeper than love,
deeper than hate
the abyss that surrounds
inclement to wait
Fortune redundant,
heads in the clouds
escape not an option
—lost faces surround
(Ronald McDonald House: September, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 1011 001101 01011 10010 1001 011110 11001 100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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