Analysis of New Whispers
Sometimes,
in the shadows
of the early morning light
Resting in the
shade,
awaiting the beginning

And hiding
from the end
of all that’s unpromised
I watch
the questions disguise themselves
as often answered
And tuck
new whispers soft within,
—a certain change
(Chicago Illinois: July, 1977)
Scheme | XXA XXB BXA XXX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 001 1010101 1000 1 0100010 1 010 101 1111 11 0100101 11010 01 110101 0101 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 305 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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