Analysis of Forever Long
Words pulling apart
Feelings smashed to bits
Memory on the run
Meaning cast adrift
Days repeat in darkness
Lonely with the dawn
Echoes haunt my musing
—nights forever long
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Scheme | XXXXXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 10111 100101 10101 101010 10101 101110 10101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 206 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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