Analysis of Five Strangers
Five strangers walked into my dream,
arm in arm, all different versions
of my deceased mother
They looked at me one by one,
with that look—her look,
that had been gone for so long
The first whispered to the second,
then the second to the third,
as the fourth and fifth just shook their heads
I tried to look away, but their presence
followed, and my eyes were frozen
in the judgment they proclaimed
My sleep now haunted by what I once knew,
a maternal affliction that my memory had cured
—returning again to infect my dreams
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Scheme | XXX AXX XXX XAX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 101110010 110110 1111111 11101 1111111 01101010 1010101 101011111 1111011110 10011010 0010101 1111011111 00100101110011 0100110111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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