Analysis of Symphonic Triage
Blood upon the keyboards
harmonicas in flight
Chasing notes across the score
horns that greet the night
Eighty eight’s to hemorrhage
reeds that bend and break
Music dying then reborn
—trumpeting our fate
(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 101 1010101 11101 1011100 11101 1010111 100101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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