Analysis of Y d J



You should have fled when you could
the short summer of '89--a wild mare
that wouldn't be harnessed
Time's fated grasp nearly caged her flight
but
you would've been safe on her back
far above
out of reach
from the dark arms of even the tallest city towers
and cold prisons where lonely people
slowly choke on the same dreams
where late night streets sprayed with water
become dark, wet rivers
wherein reflections of tired electric eyes
sleepily glitter
and desperate ones like you
dragged down
under
the burden of heavy ironhearts
drown


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLIMLNOLIO
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 1111111 01101011 110110 110110101 1 11011101 101 111 10111100101010 011011010 1011011 11111110 011110 010101100101 10010 010111 11 10 0101101 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 517
Words 93
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 437
Words per stanza (avg) 93
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Submitted by wp.wessels70 on July 20, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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