Analysis of New Moments Explode
Like the marathons of my
forgotten youth
I now shy away from
longer poems
Sprinting restlessly anxious
through the waning light
New moments explode,
—old voluminous tomes
(Flight To Las Vegas: January 22, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 0101 111011 1010 1010010 10101 11001 101001 11110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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