Analysis of Logan Pass



I’m a poet devoid
of Cliff Notes
dissection
not my thing

Don’t ask me
to explain my words
I’d rather hum
and sing

Explication
penniless
in ghettos
of the word

Where vagrants
pull and tear apart
what only should
— be heard

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)


Scheme XXAB CXXB AXXD XXXD C
Poetic Form
Metre 101001 111 010 111 111 10111 1101 01 010 100 010 101 110 10101 1101 11 110010100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 277
Words 55
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 28, 2024

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