Analysis of Last Blind Ascent
Climbing each rung of the rotting ladder,
my wishes snapped one by one
The beanstalk looming high above,
its vines blocked out the sun
Grounding my desires and aspirations,
like a bird with broken wings
My hope tried one last blind ascent
—to where the Angel’s sing
(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101010 1101111 0110101 111101 1010100010 1011101 11111101 110101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 287 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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