Analysis of Flashes
Good and bad are truisms…
a qualitative masquerade
Ideology trumping feeling
—in flashes of joy and pain
(Las Vegas: January 23, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 010001 0100110 0101101 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 138 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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