Analysis of Yesterday's Sand
I buried my memory
in yesterday’s sand
To live in the past
—beyond reprimand
(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)
Scheme | XA XA X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 1101100 0101 11001 0110 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 104 |
Words | 17 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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