Analysis of Through a Half Open Door
A hairbrush lies on the middle of a bare dresser
As dust cascades beside a sunlit window pane
A telephone rings out in an empty apartment
As the rain glows underneath a streetlight outside
A balloon is caught and disappears in the wind
As a field of corn murmurs as it bends
That door doesn't close. I don't want it to close.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101010110 11010101101 010110110010 1011010111 00111001001 1011110111 11101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 319 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Still moments caught.
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