Analysis of Baited & Switched
Salt lick temptation
lures that dangle,
camouflaged darkness
masks and blinds
Easily captured
when most attracted,
flypaper memories
—trap and bind
(The New Room: November, 2021)
Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1110 1010 101 10010 11010 10100 101 011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 183 |
Words | 30 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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