Analysis of Now As Then
It’s all been different
It’s all been the same
It’s all been anonymous
It’s all had a name
It all had a beginning
It all has an end
Its truth lost in winning
Its game of pretend
And we search for the answer
And we question profane
And we blame it on providence
And we smother the flame
And we look toward the horizon
And we look past the shore
And the waves crash with meaning,
—now as then, and before
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC XXXA XDBD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100 11101 1110100 11101 1110010 11111 111010 11101 0111010 011001 01111100 011001 011010010 011101 0011110 111001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 435 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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