Analysis of Motherlode
Crack open the vein
and let me back in
The ore of your vision
to mine from within
All treasured remembrance
lay fallow unclaimed
Awaiting my entrance
—forever proclaimed
(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 01110 011110 11101 110010 1101 010110 01001 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 190 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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