Analysis of Skirting The Line



Touching
without feeling
Looking
without seeing
Talking
without saying
Lost
— in the dark

(Villanova University: February, 2024)


Scheme AAAAAAXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10 0110 10 0110 10 0110 1 001 0100100100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 132
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 05, 2024

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