Analysis of Forever Marked
Waiting to seize a moment
I knew would never come
The visions passed like storm clouds
deception on the run
The light was all around me
as I stood there in the dark
The shadows of misguided fear
—my path forever marked
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010 111101 0101111 010101 0111011 1111001 0110101 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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