Analysis of Specters On The Waters
Specters on the waters walk in foggy mist.
Apparition-plotters
appear to preexist.
Liminal awareness is barely understood.
Though deemed an unfairness
it often proffers good.
Preconscious foreboding states an illation.
Judicious decoding
suspends animation.
Foreign premonitions softly tap the door.
Gentle admonitions
escort to a safe shore.
The sensory threshold is portal to prudence.
The cryptically foretold
is not coincidence.
Minister to inklings. Attend to every hunch.
Decipher the sprinklings
for the final crunch.
| Scheme | ABA CXC DXD EXE FXF GBG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010101 01010 011101 101011001 111010 11011 1010111 010010 01010 10001010101 10010 011011 01001110110 0101 110100 100110111001 01001 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 507 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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