Analysis of Dismayed
Words were blows that dunned me
when I considered myself still untainted
the sour pitch of what's lame in things
had been snitching the song of my heart
a first shot of sorrow passed
and many more would follow
held off by my syllables
uttering revolt
to what
much later I got hold
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 101111 1101011010 010111101 111001111 0111101 0101110 1111100 10001 11 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 284 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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