Analysis of Bad Pennies...
Writing is a messy feast
where crumbs fall to the floor
to aggregate and congregate
to hide and form and spore
Left alone and thrown away
these remnants take new life
invading what you fear the most
on dark and stormy nights
They creep inside your cleanest lines
to weaken and distract
what memory long has cast aside
now rising from the cracks
And latching on while holding tight
they make you speak their name
those orphaned crumbs your table cleared
—in sweeping lost disdain
(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XXXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 111101 1100010 110101 1010101 110111 01011101 110101 11011101 110001 110011101 110101 01011101 111111 11011101 010101 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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