Analysis of Sealing The Memory
Each new Poem a gift
as yet unwrapped
Its secrets lay hidden,
its flow untapped
Waiting for the author
to feel the pain
To seal the memory
—to wear the stain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001 1101 110110 1101 101010 1101 110100 1101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 196 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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