Analysis of The Last Cut
Life’s ending is short,
its beginning unknown
The middle is long,
chasing stone after stone
Memories most vivid,
from decades ago
Feelings now drifting,
like wind driven snow
Our seconds tick off,
as minutes run down
The big picture fades,
tracks left on the ground
Beginning or ending,
the next step unclear
The last cut the deepest,
—to suture or sear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB CB XX XX CD XD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 101001 01011 101101 100110 10101 10110 11101 101011 11011 01101 11101 010110 01101 011010 11011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 65 |
| 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) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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