Analysis of Hurry



Hurry,
You're alive
On the edge of a sidewalk
Like a colony
The size of a shoe.
Hurry!
A day only cares so much,
Ventriloquists.
Do you speak for more than
A universal illusion?
Hurry down
'Twixt concrete and soil.
Safety, that universal illusion.
A colony
The size of a spade.
You escape
Many tragic things by luck,
Or love,
But a day only cares so much,
Ventriloquists.


Scheme AbcadAeFghijhaklmneF
Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 10 101 101101 10100 01101 10 0110111 1 111111 0010010 101 10101 101010010 0100 01101 101 1010111 11 10110111 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 352
Words 68
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 288
Words per stanza (avg) 68
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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