Analysis of Hollow Drums
Disco burnout,
fever rampant erosion
Empty glances,
mirrored hollow drums
Bleeding, starving,
passive alertness
Madeup, putdown
—treadmill run
(Woodlands Hotel: Wilkes Barre- January, 1980)
| Scheme | XA XX XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 1010010 1010 10101 1010 10010 11 11 101110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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