Analysis of The Anteroom
The ghosts of patients
meander with these dark stains
on the walls, the floors.
Haunting the valley
are stories. They never cease,
like the waning moon.
The anteroom fills
with old and new visitors.
A cold wind blows through.
Time, that consumes everything
and memory, that forgets.
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 0101111 10101 10010 1101101 10101 011 1101100 01111 110110 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 285 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
Time in an institution.
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