Analysis of the days left
our morning glory sets
in the haze of silhouettes
dancing across the moon's face
in the mid afternoon's shadow.
leaping through a gap in our eternally perishing blanket
above our shoulders
| Scheme | AABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 001101 1001011 001011 10101010010010010 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on April 27, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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