Analysis of First Breath
Jumping in
I shut both eyes
my heart lay open wide
A first hello
my last goodbye
to logic ill applied
Choosing an entry
frees all to move
the first breath to a song
Getting out
my mind rejects…
forever pushing on
The ending shatters
once breaking through
as time cuts loose its grasp
That first step forward
past my fear
—a die forever cast
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
| Scheme | XXA XXA XXX XXX XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100 1111 111101 0101 111 110101 10110 1111 011101 101 1101 010101 01010 1101 111111 11110 111 010101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 393 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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