Analysis of Life Sentence
After the diagnosis,
each moment a dream
of years and then months
and days in between
After the surgery,
the dream became real
time again captured
—the sentence repealed
(The New Room: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100010 11001 11011 01001 100100 01011 10110 01001 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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