Analysis of Quietude
The greatest Poem I ever wrote…
the one I just laid down
The one to last a thousand years
deep in the lost and found
With words familiar, feelings stained
in blood from echoes past
My pen left bleeding on its page
—as quietude repasts
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
| Scheme | XX AX XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101101 011111 01110101 100101 11010101 011101 11110111 111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 281 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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