Analysis of One Arrow Left
Twas deep within my golden years
when youth came rushing back
Tired of being left behind
seducing what I lack
Clocks run down as midnight harkens
options running thin
Amorous feelings lost to time
whose walls are closing in
But then an archer from the past
tightens up my bow
One arrow left to fire off…
that girl I used to know
It flies directed from my hand
t’ward one I left so young
To strike a memory buried deep
—of first love woe begun
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: June, 2022)
Scheme | ABXB ACXC XXXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 111101 10110101 010111 111111 10101 10010111 111100 11110101 10111 11011101 111111 11010111 111111 110100101 111101 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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