Analysis of Hand-I-Capped
Do you have five fingers
without a fist
A hope that lingers
a wanton wish
Do your letters jumble
beneath the words
Does your breath cut off
before it’s heard
Does silence threaten
what can’t begin
With empty horror
begetting sin
Whose grip wraps tightly
o’er digits limp
Your soul indentured
—creation’s gimp
(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
Scheme | AX AX XX XB XC DC XE BE D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 0101 01110 0101 111010 0101 11111 0111 11010 1101 11010 0101 11110 1101 11010 0101 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 355 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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