Analysis of New Blood
My Poem still an open wound,
unstitched by edits snare
Running free on a endless page
—new blood for all to share
(James River Writers Conference: October, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 11011101 11101 10110101 111111 11010100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 163 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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