Analysis of Now Denied
Last night I received an invitation
to my own death….
Signed by my former self
witnessed by a past unspoken
Sealed with a memory
I had yet to live
And stamped by a future
—now denied
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
| Scheme | AXXAXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011010 1111 111101 10101010 110100 11111 011010 101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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