Analysis of Forgiveness For Less
I never read it,
the way it was written
I never wrote it,
the way it should read
The lines connected,
were for me to be broken
A lesson once ending,
is where I began
I spoke out of time,
out of place…out of line
I wrote what I saw,
once the future was gone
I prided myself,
in a vision self nurtured
Asking permission for nothing,
—and forgiveness for less
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February,2017)
Scheme | AB AX XB CX XX XX XX CX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 011110 11011 01111 01010 0111110 010110 11101 11111 111111 11111 101011 1101 0010110 10010110 001011 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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