Analysis of From Year To Year
To catch you in my rhythm,
ensnare you in my rhyme
To make the meter come alive,
and pull you out of time
With lines that end so sweetly,
words pleasant to your ear
For you to carry past today,
and sing from year to year
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110 011011 11010101 011111 1111110 110111 11110101 011111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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