Analysis of Your Voice Reversed
You can go anywhere as someone else,
the masks and jesters play
invisible to sound and touch
the Lords and Creatures pray
To rent the future—sell the past,
the landlord still unnamed
invulnerable to what they sell
the real prize still unclaimed
To cry out once your voice reversed
lone echo at your back
the Landed Gentry comes and goes
—the crossroads blackest cat
(The New Room: April, 2022)
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 010101 01001101 010101 11010101 01101 010001111 011101 11111101 110111 01010101 01101 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 400 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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