Analysis of Grasping For Straws
you have many personalities inside your head
face full of lead but I'm still not dead
I need love I need you I
I am no more than a blade of grass
no more than a shell
cast out of the sea
no more
than a bird
in migrant flight
nor am I less
than a star whose light
penetrates infinity
yet last night
When a half spent moon
Lay on the bosom of heaven
And day's heat pressed down
The sides of mountain peaks
To squeeze the desert floor,
And all the world was weariness
Which the stars wept to see,
Boldly
A desert songster
Insolently free, joyously
Lifted melody
To the moon, and teasing a breeze
Into cooling the night
And drifting the yucca's perfume
Bringing heart's ease to me
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Metre | 111001000111 111111111 1111111 111110111 11101 11101 11 101 0101 1111 10111 100100 111 10111 11010110 01111 011101 110101 01011100 101111 10 0101 111 10100 10101001 011001 0100101 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 697 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 16 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 275 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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