Analysis of Waiting For An Answer
Sleep, sleep,
tiny footsteps of death
walking through my dreams
hiding from the light
Calling out my name,
waiting for an answer
guardian of the exit
—to damn or delight
(The New Room: August, 2023)
| Scheme | XXXA XXXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 10111 10111 10101 10111 101110 1001010 11101 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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