Analysis of The Fall
I happen to be cast a
different way
Molten like igneous
stone
I live on the boundary,
where others won’t play
At the edge of the scary
unknown
The chess board on fire,
as the Russian sage smiles
With the questions the same,
only more
All answers now servant,
as I step off the ledge
The fall better this time,
—than before
(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)
Scheme | XA XB CA CB XX XD XX XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 1001 101100 1 1110100 11011 1011010 01 011110 101011 101001 101 110110 111101 011011 101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 362 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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