Analysis of Through The Glass Darkly
Poets believe
they were born out of time,
each era too early, too late,
out of rhyme
Creations main doctrine
for those so inclined
connects what’s unspoken
—to a far greater mind
(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 101111 11011011 111 010110 11101 010010 101101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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