Analysis of More Than A Cellphone
I’ve left it on rock ledges
in elevators and bars
Taxicabs, backpacks,
motorcycles near and far
It’s laid on the Great Wall,
as I started to walk away
And fell out of the raft
in Wyoming that day
It flew on the airplane
after I had gotten off
And spent two days in Key West
with Fedex as the cost
It’s kept me in touch,
that’s important I know
But the voice it records
into words
—much more so
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA XX XX XB XXB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 010001 101 100101 111011 11101101 011101 01011 11101 1011101 0111011 111101 11101 101011 101101 011 111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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