Analysis of Breathless
The lungs don’t work
—when the heart is broken
(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)
Scheme | XX X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quinzaine (33%) |
Metre | 0111 101110 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 74 |
Words | 12 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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