Analysis of The Gathering Dust
Living inside the moment,
Temporal things
Pass me by
On their march to permanence
Attached to everything
But themselves,
They stand as false Icons
To a time once lived–then put away
A trophy case of remembrance…
Enshrining what was lost
In the gathering
Dust
Never rediscovered…
Defining what death means
In the gathering
Dust
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)
| Scheme | xxxa bxxx axBC xxBC x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010 1001 111 1111100 01110 101 11111 101111101 01011010 1111 00100 1 100010 010111 00100 1 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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