Analysis of Raison D' Etre
What purpose Poetry,
if not to transcend
The mundane, the broken,
those roads with no end
With every feeling
new words are reborn
To speak to Creation
—and live readorned
(The New Room: January, 2021)
| Scheme | AB CB XX CB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100 11101 001010 11111 110010 11111 111010 011 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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