Analysis of Cut it apart

Ryan Blackborough 1984 (Adelaide)



Disjointed, dissection.
Like that which came before.

Dissection like that which,
came before disjointed.

Like that which disjointed,
dissection came before.

Like that which came before.
Dissection, disjointed.


Scheme xA xb ba Ab
Poetic Form
Metre 010010 111101 010111 101010 111010 010101 111101 010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 212
Words 38
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 7

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Submitted by RyanBlackborough on March 29, 2024

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Ryan Blackborough

For years he lived in a secret government facility. One day they found him and were like "what the fuck are you doing here?", and they shot him. Now he wanders the earth as a ghost, a poet ghost (not a ghost writer, he's way cooler than that). For some reason he can wear hats but if he walks through a wall or something (not like tables or small stuff) the hat falls off. He's lost a lot of nice hats. more…

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