Analysis of Playing The Words
“You play words like an instrument”
someone once said
Each vowel as a whole note
to consonants wed
High praise from a seeker
deftly looking for more
New songs in the making
—words singing du jour
(The New Room: March, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111100 111 1101011 11001 111010 101011 110010 11011 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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