Analysis of Dust
I fear one day my bones will break and my rib cage will crumble away to dust, if my heart cannot keep from beating out of my chest. It flutters like an anxious bird trapped behind golden bars.
| Scheme | A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101111100111111101110111111011101101101 |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1 |
| Lines Amount | 1 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 152 |
| Words per line (avg) | 38 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Written on 2016
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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