Analysis of No Escape
Poet’s sleep
with their memories
to hate or to love
Voices unanswered
the night’s
turtledove
Darkness remembers
what daylight
forgets
As dreamers
reenter
— what twilight begets
(Dreamsleep: April, 2018)
| Scheme | XXAXXABXCBXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 11100 11111 1010 01 1 10010 11 01 110 010 1101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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