Analysis of The Bottom Drawer
My mind is like a giant dresser
with thoughts and feelings stored
Some are for later and some for now
each in its own drawer
New thoughts are folded flat and crisp
but new feelings loosely thrown
In the bottom drawer to lie together
—time there long outgrown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
Scheme | AX XX XB AB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 110101 111100111 10111 11110101 1110101 0010111010 1111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 302 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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