Analysis of Accents
Sometimes I feel like a gypsy child
Sometimes I dream of my parents
Trying so hard
that blood wilts from their ears,
The line between towns is
A brick wall of my face
Covered in printed words
The corners darkening the closer they come into view
New names filter in with accents,
I cross the street and
Feel as if the sparrows
may be dying,
So slowly, like the leaves falling
In the time between
The summers,
In the time between
The winters.
I try so hard,
Embodying my weakness
when it flows to my shins,
to breaks I make in the trail,
Blood wilts from the toes that I never
see,
Blood wilts and never
has the chance to run clear
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110101 01111110 1011 111111 010111 011111 100101 01010001011011 11100110 11010 111010 1110 11010110 00101 010 00101 010 1111 0100110 111111 1111001 111011110 1 11010 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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