Analysis of Branching Inward
The bark of my knowing
is rotting away
With grain left exposing
what memory betrays
Those things I pushed outward
root deeply within
As the oldest of wood
—makes the best violin
(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)
| Scheme | AXAXXBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110 11001 111010 110001 111110 11001 101011 101001 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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