Analysis of The—Dance
He had more past
than future
his rope was
getting thin
The choices made
the debts he paid
lost time
the biggest sin
His memory out
for barter
to change that
yet to come
For one last chance
to do the dance
whose music
—zero sum
(The New Room: May, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXBCCXB XAXDEEXD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 110 111 101 0101 0111 11 0101 11001 110 111 111 1111 1101 110 101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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