Analysis of He's moving closer
He's moving closer
to his truth, in registers
of a composer.
Thoughtfully trying,
he's working on his dream day,
aware of prying.
Restoring old times
from the grey of memories
and lead-footed chimes,
escorted by cries,
in ecstasy his final chord
will therefrom arise.
Scheme | AXA BXB CXC DXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1110100 10010 10010 1101111 01110 01011 1011100 01101 01011 01001101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 270 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
This is a quadruple 'hepkoe' (Dutch haiku form with 5-7-5 syllables, first and third line rhyming, and in total 11 unique words)
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