Analysis of The Prodigal
Today, I fed a horse still wild,
and asked him with my rhyme
To blaze the silver meteor’s trail,
to where the words collide
I filled him with one final verse,
to sharpen my refrain
And mounted for that one last ride
—to go back home again
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XA XX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110111 011111 110101001 110101 11111101 110101 01011111 111101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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