Analysis of Your Spirit Bereft
Nocturnal flower
In need of sleep
Your petals wilted
The count for sheep
Shoulders hunch in darkness
The dice are cast
A croupier blocking
Sun’s setting mask
Through court and courtship
Lost adrenalin runs
A jester beckoning
His joke undone
And the meadow sparse
The reaper has left
A future reharvested,
—your spirit bereft
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | XABA XXCX XXCX XDBD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 0111 11010 0111 101010 0111 0110 1101 1101 101001 010100 1101 0011 01011 0101 11001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 353 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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