Analysis of Coloring In The Spaces
Trying to understand
why you marked up your body
—I stared at the ink
The memory of your open promise
still inside of me
—unfulfilled
Retracing that promised memory
with new symbols
—stained forever
You colored in the empty spaces
I was unable
—or unwilling to see
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)
| Scheme | XAX XAX AXX XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 1111110 11101 0100111010 10111 01 010110100 1110 1010 110001010 11010 101011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 318 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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