Analysis of Across The Fence
The writer always
wants to sing
And the singer
wants to paint
The painter fancies
he could dance
To the dancer
songs conflate
The greenest grass
it seldom grows
Where you now
make your bed
As wishes stray
and hopes betray
What might have been
—instead
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
| Scheme | XXAXXXAX XXXBCCXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 111 0010 111 01010 111 1010 101 0101 1101 111 111 1101 0101 1111 01 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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