Analysis of Poetry



Poetry…
Conduit
Of the truth

Speaker
Of the forbidden
Silence

Last synapse
Of a feeling
Lost

Nerve ending
Of forgotten
Dreams

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)


Scheme XXX XAX XBX BAX X
Poetic Form
Metre 100 100 101 10 10100 10 110 1010 1 110 1010 1 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 152
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 26
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 09, 2016

Modified on March 14, 2023

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