Analysis of The Rudest Awakening
The dead are tired,
the living go on
Breathless and timeless,
all energy gone
The dead left to wander,
betwixt and between
Finality’s heartbreak
—the end of the dream
(Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House: May, 2021)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 01011 10010 11001 011110 01001 11 01101 01001001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 210 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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