Analysis of The Deadest End
The finer you draw your measurements,
the further away you fall
Each number squared and time compared,
deafens out the call
Your techno-dialectic,
data piled upon itself
A trash heap at the deadest end
—where folly stacks unfelt
(Haverford Pennsylvania: July, 2019)
| Scheme | XA BA XX XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111100 0100111 11010101 1101 110010 1010101 0111011 11011 1000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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