Analysis of Last Curtain To Fall
The older I get
The less people to call
Is it by choice
My spirit’s downfall
The older I get
The less then to care
A life once so pointed
With little to share
The older I get
Beginning to end
The ones that stood by me
The ones I called friends
The older I get
Meat gone from the stew
The faces just names
Of those I once knew
The older I get
Doors lock from within
A constant reminder
The blaming now stings
The older I get
The less people to call
No sand in the hourglass
—last curtain to fall
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2014)
| Scheme | ABx b Acx c A xxx Adxd A x xx ABx b x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 01011 011011 1111 1101 01011 01111 011110 11011 01011 01011 011111 01111 01011 11101 01011 11111 01011 11101 010010 01011 01011 011011 110010 11011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 514 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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