Analysis of Rooted Within
Carrying them with me,
traveling through time
Words seed my memory,
new meter and rhyme
Spreading them freely,
over days fallowed thin
New verses sprout upward
—rooted within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | AB AB AC XC A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100111 10011 111100 11001 10110 10111 110110 1001 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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