Analysis of Flash Point
The immediacy of time,
its reference untold
The beginning repeating,
not young—and not old
(The New Room: January, 2021)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00100011 110001 0010010 11011 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 118 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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