Analysis of Full Stop
The most lucid among us
admonish the period
A comma best chosen
inserted in time
Stopping for emphasis
the folly endemic
As thoughts need to flow
—forever sublime
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
| Scheme | AXXB AXXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110011 0100100 010110 01001 101100 010010 11111 01001 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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