Analysis of Crossing Stars
America’s decline…
war chanted whines
A nation in half
quicksand in our path
Altruism dead
alone in our beds
No one left to blame
—married to our shame
(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)
Scheme | XXXX XXAA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010001 1101 01001 10101 1001 010101 11111 101101 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 190 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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