Analysis of Windshield
Glass plate,
window to the road, the future,
caked in red dust and
baked in sunlight,
showing nothing but
blue skies ahead,
I wish it had only been
blue skies ahead.
I’ll never forget that warm summer
afternoon when it was you instead
of the sunrays beaming through
the windshield,
when the air was so hot, we had to
roll down the windows,
except, of course, the windshield remained,
and you didn’t.
Scheme | abxxxC xCbcdxdxxa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 10101010 10110 101 10101 1101 1111101 1101 110011110 01111101 101101 01 101111111 11010 01110101 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 404 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 10 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Written on 2019
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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