Analysis of To Some
To some
reality comes early,
to others
it comes late
The lucky
get a pass,
where the facts of life
will wait
With truth
backed in the corner,
and fantasy now
to reign
No love
to go asunder,
no past relived
again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | XAXB AXXB XCXX XCXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 10110 110 111 010 101 10111 11 11 10010 01001 11 11 11010 1101 01 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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