Analysis of Exitus
Never writing to make the words pretty,
but the thoughts pure
Each breath a moment of time’s demise
—tomorrow gone
(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 1010110110 1011 110101101 011 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 14, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on April 14, 2020
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