Analysis of Yesterday's Song
Losing connections one by one …
my mind has drifted back
This moment caught within a cloud
the past sharp as a tack
I reminisce in present tense
new frames of reference gone
With that most recent going dim
but still—I hear that song
(Bryn Mawr Hospital: March, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010111 111101 11010101 011101 1010101 1111001 11110101 111111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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