Analysis of Last Goodbye
A Poet with nothing
left to say
On bended knees
gets down to pray
Belief on hold,
his memory churns
Sleep comes hard
dreams toss and turn
A new starvation
fatal thirst
This deprivation
unrehearsed
Last ounce of blood,
the page is stained
No letters form,
no thoughts remain
A Poet left
without his voice
Dark road to travel
single choice
The sun has set
and not to rise
His final word
—a last goodbye
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX BC BC XX XX XD XD XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (64%) |
| Metre | 010110 111 1101 1111 0111 11001 111 1101 01010 101 1010 001 1111 0111 1101 1101 0101 0111 11110 101 0111 0111 1101 011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 446 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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