Analysis of The Present Flows
Closing the door on my yesterdays,
tomorrow looked on in pride
Setting the lock on the future and past
—in isolation they both cried
A Savior instant, the moment supreme,
as the now both comes and goes
All memory forsaken in times broken dreams
—as eternal, the present flows
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011110 011101 1001101001 0010111 0101001001 1011101 110001001101 10100101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 321 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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