Analysis of Prisoner Of Disguise
The words flock together
and stretch on the frame
Their meaning runs over
still wet from the pain
The canvas is porous
the easel maligned
The curtains blow outward
faces calling in mime
The streets all a-chatter,
it was Paris in spring
And striving to look busy
the most important of things
Looking back at my window
above the tannery so high
A shadow stares back
—and I flee in disguise
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | AX AX XX XX AX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011010 01101 110110 11101 010110 01001 010110 101001 011010 111001 0101110 0101011 1011110 010111 0111 011001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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