Analysis of Last Ghost
Lost in the rambling,
found in the writing
The words in the whisky,
depravity’s eye
The story of one,
a gift from the other
Released from tomorrow
—last ghost now set free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | AA BX XX XB B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 10010 010010 11 01011 011010 01101 11111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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