Analysis of Tomorrow's Masquerade
I thought perhaps to steal the myth
and hoard away the dream
Mirages fade with pretense lost,
things never what they seem
A future darkness redefined,
the past still yet to know
Intention vested—moments spent
with nowhere left to go
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 010101 01011011 110111 01010001 011111 01010101 11111 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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