Analysis of R + N 4ever
Their initials are scooped
into the curb of the
grocery’s parking lot,
the remains of a promise
collecting age,
the glances of passersby.
I imagine the
authors crouching
there, fat-fingering
into concrete their
receipt from having
loved,
not thinking of
the day when the letters
would weather into
nooks for dirt,
and the pavement would
cease to sparkle.
Still, how smart they were
to write it down.
Scheme | XAXXXX ABBXBX XXXXXX XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 101011 010110 1101 0011010 0101 0101100 10100 1010 11100 01011 01110 1 1101 011010 11001 111 00101 1110 11110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 407 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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