Analysis of A desk
under new
layers of lacquer
exposes
scratches
and patterns of wear
unnoticed before
noble witnesses
making appeal
to wonder of a time
now gone
| Scheme | XX XAXX AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Etheree (50%) |
| Metre | 101 10110 010 10 01011 01001 10100 1001 110101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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