Analysis of Literary Hourglass
There’s just a set number
of poems to write
And writing the last,
I’m done
To die but alone,
with my words as the pall
Breathless verses
—left unsung
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 11011 01001 11 11101 111101 1010 101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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