Analysis of Lords Over Time
Always in rhythm
quite often in rhyme
The verses hold constant
Lords over time
A perpetual beginning
the perpetual end
Their structure intones
—what the meaning portends
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 11001 010110 1101 00100010 001001 11001 101001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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