Analysis of Crossed Lines
Jonathan N. Wakeling 1980 (Calgary)
Do you think of drawing lines
To see where they go,
Not architects lines?
He is a sorta designer
But that is not what I meant.
There should be curves and
Even squiggles
If you’re brave enough to let go.
You meet on a quaint street
Isolate him by the post box
Interrupt his posting
With neither scarf nor fashion
Some ally cat begging, factually
Steers those big brown eyes
(I can’t imply boyish
Almost a sin to suggest it of the letter
Writing type)
It could have just been a bill for rates
But in your heart
You know it wasn’t.
Scheme | ABACDXXB XXXXXXXCXXXD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 1111101 11111 1101 1101010 1111111 11110 1010 11101111 111011 1011011 01110 1101110 1101101000 11111 110110 10110111010 101 111110111 1011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 12 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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