Analysis of The Dark Abyss
He found what he was looking for,
his shadow turned inside out
He moved beyond prescriptive cure,
all questioning and doubt
He left the future-past behind,
silhouette of all he’d missed
Impregnating the moment within himself
—to light the dark abyss
(Winston Salem, North Carolina: October, 2017)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 111011 110111 110001 11010101 011111 0100100101 110101 10101010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 300 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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