Analysis of The Divide
Easier to know others
than knowing myself
Sentience numbing
what in a stranger is felt
Easier to reach out
than to look deep inside
This painfully obvious
—cognition’s divide
(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)
| Scheme | XXXXXAXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001110 1101 110 1001011 100111 111101 1100100 101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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