Analysis of Umbra
Live your days with purpose,
and death walks by your side
To constantly remind,
what time will not abide
Your choice on how to handle,
ignore or then befriend
That last step left untaken
—where life begins again
(Bryce Canyon: August, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XX BB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 011111 110001 111101 1111110 011101 11111 110101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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