Analysis of A Terminal Unknown
Standing on the wrong side of the platform
waiting for the train
Remembering the mistakes I made
but not the reasons why
Listening for the truth beyond the excuse
feeling what my thoughts would never allow
I boarded in the dark….
Ticketed, to a new and unplanned destination
—fated, to a distant terminal unknown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XX XX X XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 101011101 10101 010000111 110101 10010101001 1011111001 110001 100101001010 10101010001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 353 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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