Analysis of For Evermore
If music is the soul of art,
then what can writing be
Is it the eyes, perhaps the heart,
in printed reverie
Is music the stage whereupon,
all other art encores
For if it is, all words rejoice
—to sing for evermore
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017 )
| Scheme | AB AB XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 111101 11010101 010100 11001101 11011 11111101 11110 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 29, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 16, 2019
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