Analysis of The Leaves Turn
Growing simpler with
each passing year
The leaves turn
and my mind releases
Freeing what it’s taken
a lifetime to acquire
Freeing what only this moment
can understand
(Grantham New Hampshire: January, 2012)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001 1101 011 011010 101110 011010 10110110 101 10110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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