Analysis of Last Break
Surfing the crest of
a midsummer night’s dream,
the waves became my friend
Rising and falling
in sets of remembrance
—last break to never end
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
| Scheme | XXA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011 011011 010111 10010 011010 111101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 168 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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