Analysis of That Final Breath
What describes a Poet,
let me count the ways
To once describe a morning,
emerging through the haze
What describes a season,
its leaves from green to brown
What describes a heartbeat,
when your lover can’t be found
What describes a reason,
with excuses cast away
What describes a child’s laugh,
joyous on display
What describes a place called home,
to a soldier sent to war
And what describes that final breath
—to an old man wanting more
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA BX XX BC XC XD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 11101 1101010 010101 101010 111111 10101 1110111 101010 1010101 101011 10101 1010111 1010111 01011101 1111101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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