Analysis of Last Posting
The envelope
unopened
addressed
to himself
Inside
unspoken
old hopes
and dreams
Lost
and rerouted
the stamp was
foreign
Its port of entry
still
—unforeseen
(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)
| Scheme | XXXXXAXXXXXAXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010 010 01 101 01 010 11 01 1 0010 011 10 11110 1 01 1010 |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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