Analysis of Your Lifeless Form
Do You Bore Yourself?
Do you rent the space
you’re standing in,
owning nothing in the end
but default?
Do you recycle words
until their utterance fails,
mistrusting your ability
to say what’s right?
Do you hedge your bets,
never going all in
for fear of losing the very thing
you haven’t got?
Do you count the days,
as tedium destroys spontaneity
and all energy drains
from your lifeless form?
Do You Bore Yourself?
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Scheme | A xbxx xxcx xbxx xcxx A c |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 11101 1100 1010001 101 110101 0111001 01010100 1101 11111 101010 111100101 111 11101 1100010100 011001 11101 11101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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