Analysis of Blood That Woudn't Yield
You thought that you could skip a stitch,
the thread provided free
You thought no one would ever notice,
just one small opening
The seam then weakened steadily,
threads loosened left and right
Excuses now unraveling,
Old Glory taking flight
The sinew given strong and taut,
to seal the danger out
But that one stitch you failed to close,
won’t mute the nightmare’s shout
Miss Ross is now in mourning,
as the stars have left the field
That one stitch you’ve forsaken,
—draining blood that wouldn’t yield
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Scheme | XA XB AC BC XD XD BE XE X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 010101 111111010 111100 01110100 110101 01010100 110101 0110101 110101 11111111 11011 1111010 1011101 1111010 101111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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