Analysis of To Laura Nyro
Escaping myself,
I ran into the wilderness
Escaping myself,
I ran back through the dawn
Escaping myself,
my shadow had vanished
Until capturing myself
—in the words of your song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)
| Scheme | Ax Ax Ax ax x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 11010100 0101 111101 0101 11110 011001 001111 010010100 |
| 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) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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