Analysis of Captured
Striving to be anonymous,
the hole got deeper still
Ties were broken, ropes were cut,
less water in the well
Alone within my loneliness
the darkness came at last
The wish, I wish, I’d wished away
—had captured me at last
(Flagstaff Arizona: February, 2019)
| Scheme | AX XX AB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110100 011101 1010101 110001 01011100 010111 01111101 110111 1010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 45 |
| 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) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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