Analysis of Prismatic Cry
Voices have a color
like anger or happiness,
shouting from the rainbow
in palettes of sound
Voices have a color
like red, blue, or green,
painting the silence
—in brushstrokes of fire
(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)
| Scheme | AxxxAxxa x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 1101100 10101 0111 101010 11111 10010 01110 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 204 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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