Analysis of Ego Sum
Spitting into the ocean
hoping it would rise
Wrapped in the flag of tomorrow’s retreat
the past and its minions reprise
One more straw on the hay pile
not worth a tinker’s damn
Wishing and hoping with my last breath
to free the words
— I am
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
| Scheme | XAXAXBXXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (50%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1001010 10111 100110101 01011001 1111011 11011 100101111 1101 11 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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