Analysis of Impaling Our Psyches
Hiding in daylight
concealing his teeth
Flying at night
in flocks of deceit
When fortune demands it
he says he’s a bird
When birds are in season
a flittermouse heard
He courses the difference
of right into wrong
Impaling our psyches
— with fears to prolong
(The University Of Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
| Scheme | AXAXXBXBXCXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 01011 1011 01101 110011 11101 111010 011 1100100 11011 0101010 11101 001001010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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