Analysis of Tone Death
Waiting for the music,
naked and alone
the words become orphans,
unsung and unknown
The letters in limbo,
each phrase nether blown
with melody absent
—the magic disowned
(Rosemont College: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXA XAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 10001 010110 01001 010010 11101 110010 01001 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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