Analysis of Old Man Sitting
The bones are brittle
as are the thoughts
they crumble
events of yesterdays that never happened
things that happened not remembered
today becomes another time
faces and events mingle
become a crazy quilt
He sits and stares
unaware of a spreading map
in his crotch that moves down
his legs and becomes a puddle
at his feet
His hands dangle at his sides
veiny gnarled
twitching
are they waiting for some message
from that dead brain
his pulse is almost an insult
They say he feels no pain
Scheme | AXAXXXAX XXXAX XXXXBX B |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) |
Metre | 01110 1101 110 0111011010 11101010 01010101 1000110 010101 1101 0110101 011111 11001010 111 1110111 11 10 11101110 1111 1111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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