Analysis of Silence To Collide
Playing tennis without a net,”
perhaps Robert Frost was right
Free Verse serves with no return,
day volleys into night
One long shot into the darkness,
an open end divide
Its message fades, an echo dim
—with silence to collide
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10100101 0110111 1111101 110011 11101010 110101 11011101 110101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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