Analysis of Until Then—Nothing Lost
A four year medallion
A lifetime of pain
The hours put in
Always fighting the strain
One hundredth of a second
Your dream crashes down
The spoils eluded
Someone else with the crown
No pictures or news clips
Today come your way
The prize to another
The trophy at bay
With pity now over
It’s time to begin
The reward in the training
New words to your hymn
So head back to the track
Or your pool or the court
The bar a bit higher
Your coach to retort:
“It’s all up to you
As you reweigh the cost
Never quitting—the magic
Until then nothing lost”
(Watching The Winter Olympics: February, 2014)
| Scheme | X AB A X CX C X DE D EB X X X F E F XX X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
| Metre | 011010 0111 01010 11001 1101010 11101 01010 11101 110111 01111 011010 01011 110110 11101 0010010 11111 111101 111101 010110 1111 11111 11101 1010010 011101 10010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 575 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 20 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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