Analysis of Library
The tomb is cold
as skies smolder
and ashes shed
like sunburned skin
from each foreign work.
They sing their tales
to silence
in choked air
and pallid light
voiceless and bound
In carbon cages
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 1110 0101 111 11101 1111 110 011 0101 1001 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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