Analysis of Legacy Awaits



Poetry
secured in beauty …
carved high in a tree
Branches
spread and offer cover
of your history
Winter
comes and bares the promise
Spring will shade anew
Seasons
in the bark awaiting
— progeny to view

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)


Scheme AAAXBABXCXXC A
Poetic Form
Metre 100 01010 11001 10 101010 11100 10 101010 11101 10 001010 10011 1100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 236
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 12, 2024

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