Analysis of Eternity
With one foot in the future
and one foot in the past
Eternity hangs between them
—its prescience first and last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)
Scheme | XA XA X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110010 011001 01001011 1100101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 148 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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