Analysis of Now you’re gone
Back into my shell.
Like a snail,
whose feelers have been tapped
by a passing leaf.
But I don’t dwell.
That’s the purview of slugs.
Those
lazy
passive things.
| Scheme | A XXX A X XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 101 110111 10101 1111 10111 1 10 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 1, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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