Analysis of Memory Past
Pain is the drug
On which many O.D.
Its mainline most fatal
All feelings to bleed
With birth its first victim
And death waiting last
Hiding deep in the shadows
—of all memory past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
Scheme | XAXAXAXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 11101 11110 11011 111110 01101 101001 111001 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 214 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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