Analysis of Trapped Within Myself
With words to seal my coffin shut,
I said my last goodbye
To journey down and re-reflect,
on what I said, and why
It’s quiet in my earthen grave,
no light to mark the time
My flesh to rot with bones exposed
—finality unrhymed
(Villanova University: January, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XB XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 11111 11010101 111101 11001101 111101 11111101 01001 0100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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