Analysis of Straighter Lines
The shorter the distance
between concept and words
The deeper the impact
—of what’s to be heard
(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 011001 010001 10111 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 131 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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