Analysis of when corners meet
A Classroom's lights are shut off following the eager vacancy of newly freed students
for the summer
we follow
the hallways
the stairs
the many regular meeting places
swarmed with one last breath of
clanging doors, rushed walking chatter,
beaming laughter
then a suffocating stillness
angles, parallels, perpendiculars
light reflection, uniform imperfections
forgotten items, unsettled dust
the whole orchestrated dimensionality
starts a slow constricting
liminal space
brilliantly blank
Scheme | ABX XXXXBB XAXXXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111100010100110110 1010 110 01 01 0101001010 111111 10111010 1010 1010010 10101 101010010 010100101 0110000100 101010 11 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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