Analysis of Last Riff
Pounding each key
like a Fender Rhodes
the computer bent and wailed
Bits and bytes
of encrypted language
messages derailed
Memory freezes
last chance rebooted
restart zero-sum
The riff uncapped
its printout fading
—typeface on the run
(The New Room: 8/6/2023)
| Scheme | XXAXXA XAXAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 10101 0010101 101 101010 10001 10010 111 01101 011 1110 1101 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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