Analysis of Etchings
I must have been
Written in pencil
Somewhere on your surface
The depths of you
Reserved for someone else
I lift, flake
And am gone
With one quick breath
Soft and bruised
I linger
My shell translucent
And you are
For all the world to see
Carved in my bones.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 10010 11110 0111 01111 111 011 1111 101 110 11010 011 110111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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