Analysis of internal affairs



check my fellow passengers like a thief:

this woman's hands
look like hers and
her sweater covers her neck the same way
and others read
underneath the subversive light of the
subway car.

particular to a hint of snow,
and the slow relief of release,

a fresh coat of awe, thrown over everything,
startles.


Scheme X XXXXXX XX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100101 1101 1100 0101001011 0101 010010110 11 010010111 00101101 0111111010 10
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 293
Words 54
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 2, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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