Analysis of Turning Leaf
The pages of my life
turn
like falling leaves
as autumn yields to winter
gathering in piles
of remembrance
blowing and scattering
to the four winds
—never to return
(Dreamsleep: November, 2020)
| Scheme | XAXBXXXXA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 010111 1 1101 1101110 10001 1010 100100 1011 10101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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