Analysis of Sweet Memories
Music is to written words
as icing is to cake
Enhancing what you thought you read,
to joyously partake
A song can climb between the layers
to make each serving fly
Sent from Maestro’s high above
—sweet memories bye and bye
(Dreamsleep: November, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 110111 01011111 1101 011101010 111101 111101 1100101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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