Analysis of Votive Candles
They come to me in phrases
in couplets newly born
Screaming from the highest places
fitted but unworn
They come to me in dreamsleep
the moon recycled new
Time released in words immortal
—scratched into the pew
(The New Room: February, 2024)
| Scheme | AB AB CX XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 01101 10101010 1011 111101 010101 10101010 10101 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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