Analysis of Feasting On Famine
Feeding on my hunger
the days were longer still
That yet to come and still undone
left victim to my will
Starvation my horizon
its emptiness on fire
Unending pangs my souls repast
—a famine to inspire
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
| Scheme | AB CB CA XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 010101 11110101 110111 0101010 1100110 0101111 010101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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