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.
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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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