Analysis of Loneliness



In this room I sit.
There's nothing here to taste with sight
No bed, no chairs, not even light
No breath, no soul to touch and see
Only a mirror of me
Of what I am
And what I want to be.


Scheme ABBCCDC
Poetic Form
Metre 01111 11011111 11111101 11111101 1001011 1111 011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 180
Words 42
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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