Analysis of parapraxis
the day I said a parapraxis was haunting
it trigered a sequance that effected others
to an empty threat from the ghost like mannequins
in an enclosure of stolen time
to the wound of sanity
which made a sojourn in hell
and after it all this self won.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101110 1101101010 111011011100 010101101 1011100 1101001 01011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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