Analysis of When Looking Back
I’ll rue the day,
I can’t write angry
I’ll rue the day,
not alone with myself
I’ll rue the day,
the questions all answered
I’ll rue the day,
thoughts no longer felt
(Dreamsleep: May, 2020)
| Scheme | Ax Ax Ax Ax a |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 11110 1101 10111 1101 010110 1101 11101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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