Analysis of Ghosts Of Tomorrow
The graves of my youth
lay scattered behind me
Each headstone a failure
endorsed by my hand
A shroud covered memory
encloses my history
Where ghosts of tomorrow
roam—haunting my past
(St. David’s Church: September, 2022)
| Scheme | XABX AAXX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 110011 11010 01111 0110100 11100 11101 11011 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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