Analysis of Hidden In Plain Sight
Music has a special taste
feelings lost in sound
Touching heard across the room
vision by the pound
References left unto themselves
choir boys in tune
Trading what they never had
tribute to the loon
One last chance to make the grade
masks come flying off
Darwin leaving Born in chains
climbing through the moss
Menageries have come and gone
kaleidoscopes diffused
Nomenclature chameleons
—confounded and bemused
(The New Room: January, 2023)
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XXXX XDBD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10101 1010101 10101 100011001 10101 1011101 10101 1111101 11101 1010101 10101 11101 101 1001 010001 011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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