Analysis of The Gene
There’s a gene embedded in every parent
to recreate
what their parents had done
Sometimes good, and sometimes bad,
passing it down
from father to son
To repeat family history through memories past
the circle
a lingering fate
Excuses come early with reasons
too late
DNA always proffered as bait
The young and the old both prisoners of time
their footsteps in sequence
to fall
And when questions are posed why they acted this way,
they’re too busy passing it on
—to recall
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XAB XXB XCA XAA XXD XXD C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010010010 110 111011 0110011 1011 11011 10110010011001 010 01001 010110110 11 1111011 01001110011 11010 11 011011111011 11101011 11 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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