Analysis of The Miller's Stone
Forty years of bad road,
a path of broken glass
Potholed memories line my thoughts,
devil waiting fast
“Retrace your steps,
your quickest way back home
“Forty years of shattered dreams
—ahead the millers stone”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 011101 1100111 10101 0111 110111 1011101 010101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 24, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 16, 2019
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