Analysis of The Last Bridge
They come to me phrases,
crying out to be whole
One last bridge to cross,
no fare for the toll
Prodigal wanderers,
not spoken or heard
My breath used as payment,
—conveying their words
(Villaova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 101111 11111 11101 100100 11011 111110 01011 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 221 |
Words | 38 |
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) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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