Analysis of 2008-2016
The fabric has torn
all beds are unmade
The sheets have been soiled,
—the bugs to invade
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 01011 11101 01111 01101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 126 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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