Analysis of The Instant
A few seconds of eternity
two more than you’ll need
One moment of profundity
fog gone—vision freed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2013)
| Scheme | AB AB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 011010100 11111 11011 11101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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