Analysis of whitegreyblack
colors gone
no fuschia
puce
seafoam
cadmium
mustard
brighter & brighter
brightest
just a dream
reality looms
pale
transparent
colorless
a photograph
2 dimensional
lacking depth
a movie
images going by
a screen
a filter
greyscale
absence of everything
lacking
negative
opposing
contrasting only itself
fading
all but gone
| Scheme | AXBCCX DXC BEXB XXXXXXD EFFXFXFA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 11 1 1 100 10 1010 10 101 101 1 010 100 010 0100 101 010 100101 01 010 1 10110 10 100 010 0101001 10 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 293 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 4, 7, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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