Analysis of Horae's Lyre



Making eternity
out of a moment
Escaping
the pretense of time
Beginnings
and endings
Falling away
in one enduring rhyme

Making eternity
bend to my will
An Angel
comes to dance
Wings on fire
Horae's lyre
The instant christened
—another chance

(The New Room: June, 2023)


Scheme Axxbccxb Axxdxxxd x
Poetic Form
Metre 100100 11010 010 00111 010 010 1001 010101 100100 1111 110 111 1110 11 01010 0101 0111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 273
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on June 30, 2023

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